[Tapestry-developer] XML Processing & Other Stuff

[Craig Gregory]

I posted the following a couple of days ago, is it not getting through or does no one have any thoughts ?   I am trying to add another layer of abstraction to Tapestry when rendering the final HTML output. Using Tapestry to pull data from the application and notify the application when HTML gestures occur is the way to go, but I am looking to add enterprise and/or user look-and-feel to the application. I am thinking XML/XSLT processing of the native Tapestry output. I would place XML makers in the Tapestry template files of Tapestry components, and then have the container (Orion in my case) post-process the output from Tapestry.   Some of what I want to do would be to reorder the output stream base on look-and-feel parameters. Is this a sound strategy or am I missing something that Tapestry already can do ?   To implement the strategy, would the following work ?  I would sub-class ApplicationServlet and overload the doService() method to set the Context Type of the response.   abstract public class MyApplicationServlet extends net.sf.tapestry.ApplicationServlet {       protected void doService(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)       throws IOException, ServletException {           response .setContectType ("text/xsl") ;         super .doService (request, response) ;     } }   The container would then process the response after Tapestry is done. The XML makers I would place in the corresponding template files would pass information onto the XSLT process. Assuming that Tapestry will pass any embedded information in component template file as is.  Actually I plan to make the Context Type dependent on a properties file associated with each Tapestry page. What are your suggestions or where to place the processing of this information ?   I also see where it might be prudent to generate Tapestry output from inside a component (not from the template file). I would implement this kind of processing by sub-classing BaseComponent and overwriting the render() method. Are there any simple examples of this ?   Craig J. Gregory Dir. of Information Srevices Blue Mountain Community College PO Box 100 2411 NW Carden Av. Pendleton, OR 97801 (541) 278-5825   Craig J. Gregory Dir. of Information Srevices Blue Mountain Community College PO Box 100 2411 NW Carden Av. Pendleton, OR 97801 (541) 278-5825