Hi Eric, Thanks for the links to these. I wasn't aware of either.
Marty Hall's "More Servlets and JSPs" has a nice chapter on filters. I went through that to get the source that I'm running. It was a fine learning experience for me. But perhaps the stuff you're citing is more bulletproof. Thanks for the links. - MOD --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was going to program some Servlet filters when I > saw the following: > http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/trimflt.htm > http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/gzipflt.htm > > This might do all you ever wished for :-) > > I'll install it here and keep you posted... > > Best regards, > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Duffy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Montag, 7. Juli 2003 21:15 > To: Tag Libraries Users List > Subject: Re: removing those blank lines from the > output > > > I guess you can do that, but I prefer something > else. > > I use a GZIP compression filter on my control > servlet > that gets rid of all that extraneous whitespace and > more when I sent responses back to clients that can > accept compressed output. > > That's what eBay does routinely. > > I'm seeing good compression in the response. I log > before & after stream size, just to check. Fewer > bytes on the wire means faster response, as long as > the compression and decompression times are small > compared to transmission time. My subjective > measure > tells me that response is pretty fast, but I have to > admit that I don't have hard "before and after" > numbers. > > I agree with your aim, but I disagree with the way > you > achieve it. Respectfully yours, MOD > > --- Yann Cébron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Michael Duffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im > > Newsbeitrag > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Sorry, but I thought the question had to do with > > > getting rid of whitespace from JSPs generated at > > > runtime. Perhaps I lost the thread. - MOD > > > > > > > Actually, since all your JSP-tags and HTML-tags > will > > be side by side in your > > JSP-source you'll save a lot of whitespace, > > especially when using > > <c:forEach> or similar constructs. At least it > saved > > me about 50-80% of the > > resulting HTML, depending on the original JSP. > > > > Try it out for yourself to see if it does the job > > for you... > > > > Cheers, > > Yann > > > > > --- Yann Cébron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > here's a snippet I use in my build.xml after > > copying > > > > the JSPs and HTML files > > > > to the build dir: > > > > > > > > <replaceregexp match=">\s*<" > > > > replace="><" flags="g" > > > > byline="false"> > > > > <fileset dir="${build.home}" > > > > includes="**/*.html,**/*.htm,**/*.jsp"/> > > > > </replaceregexp> > > > > > > > > This is not a perfect solution, but it gets > you > > a > > > > *very* compact HTML output > > > > and it does not have any runtime-costs like > e.g. > > > > Servlet-filters or other > > > > tags which strip the whitespace *after* the > > response > > > > has been generated. > > > > > > > > HTH, > > > > Yann > > > > > > > > "Neil Zanella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im > > > > Newsbeitrag > > > > > > > > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > Is there really no NEAT way of removing > those > > > > blank lines left over from > > > > > JSP tags in the output??? I'm shocked!!! > :-() > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! :-) > > > > > > > > > > Neil > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
