How about Message.getText? It returns String. Using views is not a very clean approach, because it mixes up the presentation xml and the controller code. We took pains to convert the views to *Mgr objects and use "bind" to wire the values to the templates. It's one of the niceties Lift offers. Timothy Perrett wrote an informative article about this:
http://blog.getintheloop.eu/2009/4/13/a-detailed-look-at-lift-s-view-code-binding-system There's also loads of examples in the excellent Lift book- "The definitive guide to Lift" (I'm not associated with the book in any way). Let me know if you need more pointers to information about using "bind". Vassil On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks good. Now we just need a picture and date/time stamp. > >>> > Is there a way to extract the text from Message without converting it to >>> > XML? > I think you always have to convert to XML but Vassil might be more able to > help. > > D. > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Dave Briccetti <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here’s a partial solution: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcbriccetti/3965024560/sizes/o/ >> >> Is there a way to extract the text from Message without converting it to >> XML? >> >> On Sep 28, 2009, at 5:50 AM, Richard Hirsch wrote: >> >>> I just created a new Jira item >>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME-86) for the user list >>> page. >>> >>> @Dave: maybe that is something you would like to try? >>> >>> D. >> >> >
