Though that's undeniably a bit of a rabbit hole, it would also be the
fully general solution and could have really interesting applications
in terms of being able to bind not just full NodeSeqs but individual
attributes, and even attributes in multiple nodes. Sounds like an
exciting feature to me!
onward and xbindward,
Kris
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:29 PM, David
Pollak<feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Crud... adding xpathisms to bind... where will it end? :-)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Kevin Wright
> <kev.lee.wri...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One possibility I already considered is something like:
>> bind(nodeseq, "prefix",
>> "suffix" -> Text("matched an element"),
>> "@suffix" -> Text("matched an attribute"),
>> "@suffix=value" -> Text("matched an attribute with specified value"));
>> the bindings here would respectively match the elements:
>> <prefix:suffix>content</prefix:suffix>
>> <span prefix:suffix="placeholder">content</span>
>> <span prefix:suffix="value">content</span>
>>
>> Use of the span elements above was an arbitrary choice
>> What's missing is an intuitive way to access the node that has been bound,
>> especially if you only want to change the contents
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Pollak
>> <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Kris Nuttycombe
>>> <kris.nuttyco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We'd still need some attribute to disambiguate in the case of multiple
>>>> textarea tags, wouldn't we?
>>>
>>> I don't think so. The only NodeSeq being passed to the function is the
>>> NodeSeq inside the tag that's getting bound to.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kris
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:51 PM, David
>>>> Pollak<feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > I can see a set of methods that look like:
>>>> > textarea(f: String => Unit)(n: NodeSeq) that will slurp the values and
>>>> > attributes out of the NodeSeq... so you'd bind like:
>>>> > "biography" -> textarea(s => setBio(s)) _
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Matt Williams <m...@makeable.co.uk>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I wholeheartedly agree with the philosophy of separating the display
>>>> >> from the program logic, and am currently getting to grips with the
>>>> >> generators, but am finding that now I end up with a degree of markup
>>>> >> within my code.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Can you think of any caveats to infering the node type passed, and
>>>> >> dynamically using the relevant generators to construct the returned
>>>> >> node.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I am thinking something along the lines of:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> <person:biography>
>>>> >> <textarea style="myStyle" cols="20" rows="5">
>>>> >> This is a sample of some biography text
>>>> >> </textarea>
>>>> >> </person:biography>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Where it would automatically infer that it is a textarea, pass
>>>> >> through
>>>> >> the relevant attributes, and insert whatever function, values, etc I
>>>> >> have specified in my snippet.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> What are your thoughts on this?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Brgds,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Matt
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>> > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net
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>>>> > >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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