I would argue (mildly) that the design is a bit wrong if the base class attributes are hidden from subclass tags (although I just did something similar, didn't I? :), but either way its not a big deal since Struts already has a system in place to generate docs and TLD's, although its separate from the source. I think the source is the right place for docs and metadata for taglibs, hence my affection for XDoclet in this case :)
Erik Martin Cooper wrote: > Unfortunately, it's not that simple with the Struts tags. Many of the tags > extend a base class which defines a number of common attributes. However, > just because the code for an attribute is available does *not* mean that it > should be exposed for every tag that extends the base class. > > A case in point is the HTML taglib. Which attributes are exposed for a > particular tag is dependent upon the HTML 4.01 spec. In the implementation, > it is very convenient to have several base classes which cover the large > majority of attributes. However, there are some tags which extend the base > classes, but which do not expose all of the attributes, so that they conform > to the spec. > > Now, if we could get XDoclet to handle that... ;-) > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Edgar Dollin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:22 AM >>To: 'Struts Developers List' >>Subject: RE: LabelTag >> >> >>The number of missing attributes in the tag libraries is >>large enough to >>consider >>a change, especially since writing tag libraries is one of the most >>pleasurable >>parts of what we do ;-). >> >>Edgar. >> >> >>>I do highly encourage the Struts committers to use XDoclet >> >>for TLD and >> >>>documentation generation (but I guess if it ain't broke, >> >>don't fix it, >>eh?). >> >>> Erik >> >> >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>For additional commands, e-mail: >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>For additional commands, e-mail: >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>