I'm curious about the status of the input taglibrary, mainly because I have my own lib that is called "validation" which acts a wrapper tags around form fields to provide user validation for form content (plus retention of form field values submitted by user, and conditional logic tags to control error display for various fields. It works a bit differently than input does.
<v:validate id="foo">
<v:if_valid>
<!--
executed only if "required" conditions are met.
could forward or redirect to a resource, or handle logic
directly
-->
</v:if_valid><form action="" method="GET|POST">
<v:required name="email" match='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'>
<input type="text" name="email" value="<%=value%>"/>
<input:if_not_formated>
(*) not a valid email.
</input:if_not_formated><v:if_empty> * You must provide .</v:if_empty>
<v:if_absent> * required.</v"if_absent>
</v:required>
<v:required name="submit">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"/>
</v:required>
</form></v:validate>
This basically provides empty, absent and format checking capabilities for request parameters. It uses regexp.jar to to regular expression checking.
The powerful feature of this taglibrary is that as "wrappers" there is no concern for "presentation" involved with the library, and it can be used with more html editors like dream weaver relatively easily.
I'd like to get it working with JSP 2.0, JSTL and multipart file posts as well in the near future using either FileUpload or the COS Multipart parser package.
Is there any interest in this? -Mark Diggory Harvard MIT Data Center
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