I tried using a filter. But Maverick is very good at doing transformations (XSLT and Velocity). To put it in another way: I can do a transformation transparantly by pointing to an url... So, what I would like to do, is actually processing *all* requests (also to external HTML sources) and include them in my pages with *my* look-and-feel.
Thanks to you guys (Eelco Hillenius + Jeff Schnitzer), I tried the following successfully: I made a servlet filter that redirects to a maverick command, lets call it HTML2M.m (mmmmm!). All *.html request are mapped to that filter. The filter takes the address and appends it as a parameter to the maverick command: public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain filterChain) { //... maverickCommand set previously to "HTML2M.m" ... try { HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest) request; HttpServletResponse res = (HttpServletResponse) response; res.sendRedirect( req.getContextPath() + "/" + maverickCommand + "?target=" + req.getRequestURL().toString()); } catch (IOException ex) { //... } //... chain filter ... } So I can do the following: 1. Type some url in my browser, say http://localhost/MyPage.html 2. This is filtered and forwarded to the maverick command as http://localhost/HTML2M.m?target=http://localhost/MyPage.html 3. A view is selected and precessed normally: i can take the $target and include it in my page (I used JSTL c:import but plan to move to jakarta scrape). Lets call this page WrapURL.jps 4. Process this result further (transformations) in maverick: <command name="HTML2M"> <view type="document" path="WrapURL.jsp"> <!--transform type="xslt" path="StripHTML.xsl"/--> </view> </command> The transform could be used to select parts of the HTML in step3, or to strip out styling stuff, or whatever. I could also use the XML features of JSTL but I do not want to do that. I prefer Maverick for obvious reasons ;-) >Hmmmmm. Why not create a Filter to do that? It seems more natural than >trying to use Maverick. > >Jeff >> -----Original Message----- >> Hi, >> I have a question on doing the following: >> 1. If a command exists in maverick, execute it >> 2. If it does not exist, e.g. for MyPage.html then do: >> a. Load theat page (DocumentView) >> b. perform any default transformation >> (e.g. like stripping out any attributes on some tag, using XSLT) >> c. Show the transformed document. >> >> It seems that two things are missing: >> 1. Reading in any *.extension command >> 2. Views need a "path" attribute, but something like path="." (taking >> the command as a path) does not work. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp [INVALID FOOTER]