Nested-EL

[st...@sixty4bit.com]

Back in September, David Karr was threatening to do Tiles-EL and Nested-EL.  I
see that the Tiles-EL has been committed, sweet.  Nested-EL seems to be
missing.  David, have you started working on Nested-EL?  If so, how far off is
it from being complete?  If not, do you have any tips, because I am getting
started on it tonight.

Carl



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Re: Nested-EL

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

struts@sixty4bit.com wrote:
> Understood.  I have all of the classes written. The TLD is looking a little
> daunting.  From my studies it appears that the tld is generated from an xml
> file that is run through an xsl stylesheet.  If you want the classes, I can
> send them to you.

Yes, that's true. But it may not be as difficult to work with the XML 
you might imagine. Try copying a likely suspect for a template, and then 
run the Ant compile.website target .. Instant TLD.

-Ted.



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Re: Nested-EL

[st...@sixty4bit.com]

David,

Understood.  I have all of the classes written. The TLD is looking a little
daunting.  From my studies it appears that the tld is generated from an xml
file that is run through an xsl stylesheet.  If you want the classes, I can
send them to you.

Carl

Quoting "David M. Karr" <dm...@earthlink.net>:

> >>>>> "struts" == struts  <st...@sixty4bit.com> writes:
> 
>     struts> Back in September, David Karr was threatening to do Tiles-EL
> and Nested-EL.  I
>     struts> see that the Tiles-EL has been committed, sweet.  Nested-EL
> seems to be
>     struts> missing.  David, have you started working on Nested-EL?  If so,
> how far off is
>     struts> it from being complete?  If not, do you have any tips, because
> I am getting
>     struts> started on it tonight.
> 
> No, I haven't started on it yet.  However, realize that the library that
> I
> would build might not be what you're looking for.  The only result of
> building
> an "-el" library is that any tag attribute values can use the EL to specify
> the
> value, as opposed to JSP expression scriptlets.  In general, the EL
> library
> would not add or delete any attributes, or add any basic architectural
> functionality.
> 
> -- 
> ===================================================================
> David M. Karr          ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++
> dmkarr@earthlink.net   ; SCJP; SCWCD; SCBCD
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Re: Nested-EL

["David M. Karr" <dm...@earthlink.net>]

>>>>> "struts" == struts  <st...@sixty4bit.com> writes:

    struts> Back in September, David Karr was threatening to do Tiles-EL and Nested-EL.  I
    struts> see that the Tiles-EL has been committed, sweet.  Nested-EL seems to be
    struts> missing.  David, have you started working on Nested-EL?  If so, how far off is
    struts> it from being complete?  If not, do you have any tips, because I am getting
    struts> started on it tonight.

No, I haven't started on it yet.  However, realize that the library that I
would build might not be what you're looking for.  The only result of building
an "-el" library is that any tag attribute values can use the EL to specify the
value, as opposed to JSP expression scriptlets.  In general, the EL library
would not add or delete any attributes, or add any basic architectural
functionality.

-- 
===================================================================
David M. Karr          ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++
dmkarr@earthlink.net   ; SCJP; SCWCD; SCBCD





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Re: Nested-EL

[st...@sixty4bit.com]

David,

To give you a technical answer: Kinda.

If there was a way for JSTL to reach in and grab the info that the nested tags
are holding (IE Pass the contents of <nested:writeNesting />) then I don't
think you would need Nested-EL.  Or, if all of the nested tags worked like
<nested:write /> where it assumes you are trying to get the latest nested:nest
property.

I want to do <nested:select> but the select requires a property.  Which the
best way for me to specify would be EL, because I don't always know what the
name of the property is going to be.

So, the plan is to pass in the name of the property through <jsp:param> which
EL can then grab: 
<nested-el:select property="${param.fieldName}">
 ...
</nested-el:select>

Alternatives are welcome...

Carl

Quoting David Graham <gr...@yahoo.com>:

> --- struts@sixty4bit.com wrote:
> > Back in September, David Karr was threatening to do Tiles-EL and
> > Nested-EL.  I
> > see that the Tiles-EL has been committed, sweet.  Nested-EL seems to be
> > missing.  David, have you started working on Nested-EL?  If so, how far
> > off is
> > it from being complete?  If not, do you have any tips, because I am
> > getting
> > started on it tonight.
> 
> Doesn't the EL replace the need for a nested tag library?  Isn't the EL
> syntax easier than using nested tags?  I haven't used Nested but it seems
> like a Nested-EL is redundant.
> 
> David
> 
> > 
> > Carl
> > 
> > 
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Re: Nested-EL

[David Graham <gr...@yahoo.com>]

--- struts@sixty4bit.com wrote:
> Back in September, David Karr was threatening to do Tiles-EL and
> Nested-EL.  I
> see that the Tiles-EL has been committed, sweet.  Nested-EL seems to be
> missing.  David, have you started working on Nested-EL?  If so, how far
> off is
> it from being complete?  If not, do you have any tips, because I am
> getting
> started on it tonight.

Doesn't the EL replace the need for a nested tag library?  Isn't the EL
syntax easier than using nested tags?  I haven't used Nested but it seems
like a Nested-EL is redundant.

David

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