Joel, Answers inline.
Joel Rosi-Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > Hi, > > I am building a site with Sitemesh and Webwork and I am having two > problems that I would appreciate assistance with. We have adopted doing > all of our JSP development using the XML compliant syntax rather than > the older JSP propriatary syntax. Both problems I have relate to this. > For the record I am using Sitemesh 1.5, Webwork 1.2.1 and I am running > on JBoss 3.2 with Tomcat 4.1.12 embedded. These are running on RH Linux > 7.3 with Java 1.4.1. > > The first problem, is that when I do a very simple JSP page using the > xml syntax with a page as such: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <jsp:root > version="1.2" > xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"; > > > > <html> > <head> > <title>User registration</title> > </head> > <body> > </body> > </html> > </jsp:root> > > the page shows but there is no Sitemesh wrapping present. If I > substitute plain HTML or JSP propriatary syntax into the same jsp file, > then Sitemesh wraps the page just fine. My understading was that > Sitemesh did not care how the page content was produced, so this > behaviour is very surprising to me. At the moment decorators in sitemesh.xml or decorators.xml only decorate content of type text/html. Is it likely that the content you produce is of text/xml ? > > The second problem is more basic. Is it even possible to use the Webwork > taglibs in jps that uses the xml syntax? So far my testing has indicated > that this does not work and my guess is that it is because the taglibs > use templates that spew out the old style JSP. So in the end I am > trying to mix oil and water. Is this accuarate? If so, would translating > the templates resolve the issue or are there more fundamental changes > that would have to be applied to the taglib library itself? There should be no problems if you substitute the templates for your own. It should be very simple to test however. Can I ask why you are going with the new syntax? Cheers, Scott > > - joel
