Thanks for the information. Properly setting the file type was only part of the solution. The other part was to use the '## at the end of the line' trick to control where Velocity inserted newlines and to insure that the v-card keywords were the first non-whitespace on the line.
Thanks again -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Bubna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:00 PM To: Velocity Users List Subject: Re: Using Velocity for non-HTML output Sure. velocity is designed to be a generic template language. so while it is often used to generate html, you can use it to generate any text-based file type. for instance, i've used it to export spreadsheet data as tab-delimited files. when it comes to using a servlet to do it, you will not only need to know how the vcards should be formatted, but you should also set the response's content-type header so that the user's browser/OS/whatever might be able to figure out what to do with the file it is receiving. On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:32:35 -0500, Withers John Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to use Velocity to prepare non-HTML output from a servlet? > In particular, my application creates 'v-cards' to be opened by the user's > mail client. From my results so far, it appears that I need to place text > on discrete output lines. How do I do this? > > Thanks! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
