You guys,
I think separation of presentation from content is what XML does. As for JSP,
hmmm....
I think it a hack. But, it does its job well, and I like it, or should I say JSP
is a very clever
tool.
Sylvain Randier wrote:
> I believe there is a way to separate content logic and design with JSPs.
> JSP has kinda similarities with XML because the JSP tags follow the XML
> syntax. You can also define your own JSP tags using tag libraries.
>
> But there are not enough examples about how to use tag libraries, so if
> you have some, share them ;-) In fact I have developed a web application
> with JSPs and faced with some lack of examples/doc about this technology.
>
> You can read Sun's point of view on http://www.javasoft.com/jsp
>
> The right thing will be I think to combine the best of both worlds.
> Generate your XML with JSP:
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <%@ page language="java" import="mypackage.*" %>
> <jsp:useBean id="myBean" scope="session" class="SessionBean" />
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="<%=myBean.getXSLFileName() %>" ?>
> <mytag>
> .....
> </mytag>
>
> Then, the browser requests a JSP file, returning XML content, which can
> link with an XSL stylesheet as shown above.
>
> Some clients are able to display such XML files (Mozilla, IE5).
> In order to display HTML for older clients, tag libraries may be used,
> enabling the page to be easily migrated to XML later.
>
> In case of static data, XML only should be used, and the server can
> generate HTML from XML files using the Cocoon servlet (see
> http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/).
>
> I'd like to hear your opinion, I'll subscribe to jsp-interest to
> know more about it !
>
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> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Mick Chang wrote:
>
> > I kind of disagree that JSP provide a separation of presentation and content
> > logic.
> > I hear people talk about it, but I've yet to see a good demo that scales
> > with it.
> > Most people I've heard from think that a more scalable way to separate
> > presentation from content logic is to use XML served up with Servlets.
> >
> > If you have a good example of how JSP scale with the separation of
> > presentation from the content logic, by all means, share it.
> >
> > Gracias,
> >
> > Mick Chang
> >
>
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