Hello Andrew,
Some time ago I write tag to extend template mechanism in this way.
Use it if you find it useful.
This tag can be used like <template:put> tag except one feature - if
you omit content property in it, then body of this tag will be treated
as content. For example -
<template:extput name="body">
Some content
</template:extput>
Sourse you can find in attachment. This class - whole mirror of PutTag
except some strings of code.
Strings to add to the struts-template.tld
<tag>
<name>extput</name>
<tagclass>org.apache.struts.taglib.template.ExtPutTag</tagclass>
<bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>
<attribute>
<name>name</name>
<required>true</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>content</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>direct</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
</tag>
Monday, November 13, 2000, 7:45:55 PM, you wrote:
>> The template mechanism in the article is nearly identical to the one in
>> Struts. See org.apache.struts.taglib.template.
AB> I've been looking at the templating code, and
AB> have what I hope is a simple question.
AB> When using direct="true" in the <template:put> tag,
AB> to place literal text into the template, the text must
AB> necessarily be very limited because it's contained in
AB> the value of the content attribute. What I'd like to be
AB> able to do is something like:
AB> <!-- the contents of a specific page -->
AB> <template:insert template='/pagetemplate.jsp'>
AB> <template:put name="navigation">
AB> ... page-specific navigation here ....
AB> </template:put>
AB> <template:put name="pagebody">
AB> ... page body here...
AB> </template:put>
AB> </template:insert>
AB> which seems similar to your examples, except that the
AB> contents of the navigation and pagebody sections are
AB> stated in line, instead of loaded from external files,
AB> which I'd rather not do because of how many tiny
AB> little documents that would end up creating.
AB> Is this feasible? If the tag lib doesn't already
AB> support this function (and I believe it doesn't),
AB> is it possible to implement, and is it contrary to
AB> the intent? I'm not comfortable enough with
AB> taglib implementation to know if doing it this way
AB> would affect the evaluation of the page body in
AB> some undesirable way.
AB> Andy Boyko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Best regards,
Oleg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ExtPutTag.java
