I just had a look at Sitemesh and it looks like what I want. There is one thing that disturbs me, though, it looks as if sitemesh will build the page every request, which causes quite some overhead, or am I mistaken there?
Pascal On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:59 -0400, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> wrote: > I'm on my phone so I only skimmed your message. If I read correctly, > you should take a look at sitemesh. > > -W > > On 7/17/09, Pascal <pas...@voidmage.net> wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> in Struts2 it is possible to do something like >> >> <html> >> <body> >> <s:myMainNavigationMenu /> >> >> <h1>A page</h1> >> <p>Some content</p> >> </body> >> </html> >> >> This works ok, but my problem is that I have to change every single >> page, if i would like to have a custom footer for every page, for >> example. >> >> Now my question is: Is it possible to do something like this? >> >> <s:useTemplate name="myCommonTemplate"> >> <s:setTemplateTag name="body"> >> <h1>A page</h1> >> <p>Some content</p> >> </s:setTemplateTag> >> </s:useTemplate> >> >> And as template definition say >> >> <!-- Main menu --> >> <table>...</table> >> >> <s:insertTemplateTag name="body" /> >> >> <!-- Footer --> >> <p>This is the footer</p> >> >> I know it is possible to use parameters for templates, but they >> obviously have huge limitations as I can't just put the tags there as I >> did in my example. >> >> Also, I could do something like >> >> <s:myMainTemplate> >> <s:param name="bodyPage" value="page1.jsp" /> >> </s:myMainTemplate> >> >> which I also don't want because I would have an extra (unnecessary) page. >> >> So, is it possible to pass whole XML-Structures to templates? Maybe you >> have some reasons why I shouldn't want what I'm suggesting here, I would >> be eager to hear them! :-) >> >> Pascal >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
