YMMV but I'm not too excited about turning HTML into a language with
programming constructs etc. I'd rather see support for defining your own
tags and hope that people would design app/domain specific tags whose
implementations are in a good programming language like Java (with
hopefully a standard tag library for very few general purpose tags: I
wouldn't go farther than IF) instead of using things like SWITCH etc to
accomplish similar things.
What next -- a CLASS tag? :-) I'm tempted to implement something like
this: :-)
<class name="foo" abstract="false" access="public">
<method name="print">
<!-- output fun html stuff here -->
</method>
</class>
Seriously though, I'm curious why something like
<% if (condition) { %>
output blah blah blah -- condition is true
<% } else { %>
you failed
<% } %>
wouldnt work just great?
-Anil
JSP team
Walter Jerusalinsky wrote:
>
> What about this? :
>
> <SWITCH .....>
>
> <CASE ....>
> .....
> </CASE>
>
> <CASE ....>
> .....
> </CASE>
> ......
> <DEFAULT>
> .....
> </DEFAULT>
>
> </SWITCH>
>
> But please let it for JSP 2.0 (We want 1.0 now!)
>
> Walter
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rod McChesney
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 10:47 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: ELSE tag
> >
> >
> > To retain some vestige of HTML or XML syntax, I believe this would
> > have to look like
> >
> > <IF>
> > <ELSE>
> > </ELSE>
> > </IF>
> >
> > and so on. Otherwise the tags don't nest meaningfully. This kind of
> > thing is easy to hack into a parser but SGML/HTML/XML tools won't
> > necessarily understand it. Unless I'm just missing something...
> >
> > Rod McChesney, Korobra
> >
> >
> > Stuart Hargreaves wrote:
> > >
> > > At 03:38 PM 4/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
> > > >vis a vis the discussion regarding the '.' vs. the ':', why even
> > > >call these things "includeif"??
> > > >
> > > >I vote for a more programmatic syntax, like, say, "if/else" ala
> > > >most common programming languages such as c, java and c++.
> > >
> > > I vote "aye" to that. I'd also like to see a convention similar to
> > > <ELSEIF>, or <ELSEINCLUDEIF> or something to that effect.
> > >
> > > For example...
> > > <INCLUDEIF PROPERTY="bean:[property]" VALUE="value1">
> > > foo
> > > <ELSEINCLUDEIF PROPERTY="bean:[property]" VALUE="value2">
> > > bar
> > > <ELSE>
> > >
> > > >Of course what is the analog for the <excludeif> tag? Does
> > > ><excludeif><else></excludeif> make any sense? Or does it just
> > > >give you a headache like it does me?
> > >
> > > With the existance of <ELSE>, the need for <EXCLUDEIF> would go away.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > > <INCLUDEIF PROPERTY="bean:[property]" VALUE="value1">
> > > do nothing
> > > <ELSE>
> > > foo
> > > </INCLUDEIF>
> > >
> > > And as Terry mentioned, it would make more sense to use <IF> <ELSEIF>
> > > <ELSE>. Of course, this would require a closeing tag, perhaps </IF> ?
> > >
> > > My .02
> > > Stuart G. Hargreaves
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > (W) 415.659.6314
> > >
> > >
> > ==================================================================
> > =========
> > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include
> > in the body
> > > of the message "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For general help, send email to
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
> >
> > ==================================================================
> > =========
> > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include
> > in the body
> > of the message "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For general help, send email to
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
> >
>
> ===========================================================================
> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
> of the message "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For general help, send email to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
===========================================================================
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
of the message "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For general help, send email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
