Travis Low wrote:
> John McNally wrote:
>
>> Wasvyn Djannata wrote:
>>
>>> Currently torque is utilized to handle database resource generation.
>>> As we all know velocity is capable of generating "any" text generation,
>>> I come to
>>> an idea to extend its usage in turbine development environment to generate
>>> raw screen (and action) used in basic table operation such as Insert,
>>> Update, Delete, Browse.
>>
>> This sounds like a very good idea. +1
>
>
> We have this mostly working. The tool is called Borque. It generates screens,
> actions, and templates based on XML input (which we'd prefer to add to the
> torque DTD, but it can be separate).
>
> We're currently working out data access control at the table and column level.
> When that's working, we'll generate some sample applications and run some
> tests. If we're happy, we'll clean it up and submit it for review. Give us a
> month or so.
>
>>> and HTML form fields representation like <text>, <text area>, etc.
>>> In my humble opinion these 'boring' task can be done by velocity
>>> effectively.
>>>
>>> In order to do that we should give rooms in Column object to extend
>>> attributes that deal with
>>> HTML tags.
>>
>> Absolutely NO. -1
>> Size and Type are plenty of info for a quick start template/action.
>
>
> We investigated this, and decided to put it off because of the variety of
> syntaxes used in various HTML form elements, among other things. Later, we may
> write an interface with methods like "getAsHtmlSelectOption" or something like
> that. If we did that, then we'd probably specify the preferred form element in
> some XML file. Or something.
>
> cheers,
>
> -- Travis Low
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> <http://dawnstar.org/travis>
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Probably we can go thru 2 pass approach.
First: Generate XML output, which does not deal with HTML Tags directly.
but closely related with
field stuff (methods included), then..
Second: Pass this first generated XML through XSL so that we can give
freedom for skin.
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