sounds great! I also ran into the problem of sorting when column bodies 
are being used. The decorator solves that particular problem well. 

John


On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Fabrizio Giustina wrote:

> my SF id is fgiust
>  
> I'll try to commit my code to the repository by tomorrow: as I said is not finished 
> but I'd like if you can take look at that. I'll also try to create a todo list for 
> uncomplete things and for other things I think should be fixed/changed.
>  
> About the decorator approach: I also think most of the functionality in decorators 
> can be replaced with the iterator approach. The decorator part is the uglyest to 
> mantain in a refactorying like this... The decorator stuff is also very badly 
> integrated in the exporting functionality.
> BUT I found it useful for one reason: sorting. If you define the content of the 
> column with a nested tag you have sorting on a formatted string, and this is not 
> what you want for example for dates and numbers () and parsing again the string 
> before sort is not exactly a good approach)
>  
> I think for newer version the column decorator approach will still make sense, while 
> the table decorator one could maybe be totally replaced by nested tags.
> Anyway, at the moment I'm trying to keep a complete compatibility (with some 
> difference only in the html output) with the previous version, this could be 
> evaluated for a totally new version.
>  
>  
> ciao
> fabrizio
>  
>  
>  
> 
>       -----Original Message----- 
>       From: Matt Raible [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>       Sent: Tue 6/10/2003 4:33 PM 
>       To: John York; Fabrizio Giustina 
>       Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>       Subject: Re: display taglibrary
>       
>       
> 
>       > Hi Fabrizio,
>       >
>       > That's great! I spent a ton of time getting things to match using
>       > the old examples pages. I had about 85% of old functionality
>       > working. I'm looking forward to seeing your code.
>       >
>       > I still would like to stress that being backward compatible with the
>       > existing tag only provides alot of extra stuff that really isn't
>       > needed in this tag IMHO. Decorators for one example aren't needed at
>       > all with an iterate structure. The current code and attributes are
>       > cluttered with this stuff and I think that it should be deprecated
>       > or removed altogether.
>       >
>       > Matt, should we give him cvs access to upload his code? Sounds good
>       > to me.
>       >
>       
>       I'm fine with giving Fabrizio access to CVS, we should probably choose a name
>       for the new module (i.e. display2).  Fabrizio - what's your SF id?
>       
>       Matt
>       
>       
> 
> 

-- 
John York
Software Engineer
CareerSite Corporation



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