[VOTE] Ant Taglib Update, Committer, Taglib Documenting, Jakarta Taglib App

[Glenn Nielsen <gl...@voyager.apg.more.net>]

+1 for adding Scott as a taglib committer
+1 for adding the ant taglib
+1 for letting Scott implement using XML/XSLT to generate taglib docs.

Thanks Scott!

Glenn

"Scott M. Stirling" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Ant Taglib Update & Commit(ter):
> I am attaching an updated Ant JSP taglib, partly just to make an excuse
> for "officially" asking for something.  I see I can ask to be voted as a
> committer to this project.  I would like to ask now, if the existing
> committers will have it.  In tandem with that, I'd like to propose to
> have the Ant taglib committed to CVS (regardless of how the vote for
> committer turns out).
> 
> I've updated the Ant taglib with the <tstamp/> tag, which operates as it
> does in Ant.  It creates the usual three properties (scripting variables
> here, to be JSP-like): TSTAMP, DSTAMP, and TODAY.  I'd like comments on
> whether anyone thinks the <tstamp/> tag's scripting vars should have
> scope attributes.  Right now they default to page.  I'll be working on
> the taglib some more this weekend.  One of my first goals now is to
> implement the Fileset and Pattern functionality, since oodles of other
> tasks ride on those being implemented.
> 
> I saw Glenn Nielsen updating the build.xml files in CVS for all the
> taglibs.  I had already done that for the ant taglib, so that's done
> too.
> 
> Taglib Documenting:
> On a related note, I updated the taglib-docs.xsl I used to auto-gen my
> HTML and TLD docs.  It now tests for the presence or absence of tag
> attributes and gens more appropriate HTML than before (you used to get
> an empty table in HTML if no attributes were present).  Comments in
> <usage> elements are also handled so that if you don't use one, you
> don't get empty blue comment tags in your HTML.  I'll continuing hacking
> on this as I go forward with the Ant taglib.  It sure is handy to have
> it all generated this way.  I promise tomorrow I'll take at least one of
> the existing taglibs that has out-of-date HTML doc and update it with
> this and send it back.  In fact, I'd have no problem converting all of
> them.
> 
> Jakarta Taglib App:
> Final question, what do you think about examples that show inter-taglib
> interactions?  For (minor) example, one could use the page taglib to
> show how tags in different taglibs can interact by using the
> <page:attribute> tag to get the <tstamp/> vars set in the pageContext.
> But I was hesitant to do it because then I'd have to include the page
> taglib jar and configuration info in the Ant taglib.  So I was thinking
> about a common app that people could download, but that showed the
> interactions among multiple Jakarta tag libraries.  It would be
> interesting to see how much of a Web app we can put together with these
> now.  I think when the JDBC taglib hits the CVS, we'll be capable of
> building something interesting.  It could be bundled with HypersonicSQL,
> pre-configured and ready to go out of the box.
> 
> Thanks for your consideration and time.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Scott Stirling
> West Newton, MA
> 
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