Cool. Thanks, -James
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 12:02 -0500, Tim Frank wrote: > James Mason wrote on 17/11/04 11:50 AM: > > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:54 -0500, Tim Frank wrote: > > > >>>One thing I don't think JXTemplate can handle (not sure on this) is > >>>outputting non-marked-up content. This would be a problem with CSS > >>>files, for example. I love the way the CSS theme is handled with the > >>>example application (I've copied the idea into another system I'm > >>>working on), so it would be a shame to lose that. > >> > >>You can output non XML content from JX templates, just as long as your > >>JX Template is a valid XML document. Same way you can output a > >>comma-delimited data file from an XSLT transformation. So outputting > >>CSS, Javascript, etc would not be a technical problem, but it might be > >>ugly to do so. > > > > > > How would you do this? For the template to be valid xml there needs to > > be a root tag, and I haven't seen anyway to keep the tag out of the > > results. Is there a <jx:ignore-me> tag or something? > > > > Well, if we are sticking within the Cocoon framework where JX Templates > work it is quite easy. This template: > > <?xml version="1.0" ?> > <jx:template xmlns:jx="http://apache.org/cocoon/templates/jx/1.0";> > This is my JX Template > </jx:template> > > Combined with this sitemap entry: > > <map:match pattern="mytest.jx"> > <map:generate type="jx" src="mytest.jx" /> > <map:serialize type="text"/> > </map:match> > > Will output nothing more than a simple text file. No root tag required. > If you are serializing your JX to XML, of course you need at least a > root tag. For CSS/Javascript they DO have a "root" tag of <style> or > <script> which you could use and then serialise to XML. The text between > the root is always valid. > > Sorry this is a little off topic for slide per-se. > > Tim > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
