Thanks Emil. I see your point now. I just wanted to make sure I understood your concept before I decided on an implementation strategy.
Curtney On Monday 16 August 2004 09:57 am, Emile wrote: > Hi Curtney > > > Emile, can you elaborate more on your suggestion? I don't totally get > > what > > you > > > are saying. Perhaps an example or relation graph? > > I'm thinking of a java bean which is used to store the content field, a > page placeholder property and page objects which have start and end > position indicators for the content stored in the bean content property. > The results (content for a given page) can be obtained with a substring > using the page object start and end position. > > So, using an arbitrary news example, a news article is selected from a > list, but first the calling page instantiates a new bean, passing it the > article to set the content property to and the number of characters per > page. The bean creates the page objects based on the number of characters > required - searching for the nearest space or end-of-word marker to define > the limits of the page content (setting the start and end properties for > each page object). > The calling jsp requests a page and the bean returns a substring of the > content. > > Obviously this is simplified and applies to plain text only, but it's the > principle that I'm suggesting here, because then it becomes totally generic > and can possibly be added as a new component into mmbase. > > Hope it helps. > > Regards > Emile
