RE: Tags: Passing dynamically generated values for parameters

[Sreedhar Chintalapaty]

Title: Glacier

Vadim, Chiths,   Thanks a lot for your advice. I apologize for the delayed reply - I was off sick.   I tried your suggestions this morning and now, I am able to use both <gvsdb:list-people class="Singer"/> and <gvsdb:list-people><class>Singer</class></gvsdb:list-people>.   However, I still have problems setting the value of "class" based on the identically named request parameter. To illustrate:   1. When I 'statically' set "class":        XML:            <gvsdb:list-people class="Singer"/>             OR             <gvsdb:list-people><class>Singer</class></gvsdb:list-people>          Relevant line in file "people_xml.java" generated by Cocoon (_exactly_ as it appears in the file):            InputSource __is =               new InputSource(new StringReader(String.valueOf(                                              ((XMLGenerator.toXML(SingerHelper.getAll())).asXML()))));   2. When I dynamically set "class":        XML:            <gvsdb:list-people><class><xsp-request.get-parameter name="class"/></class></gvsdb:list-people>          Relevant line in file "people_xml.java" generated by Cocoon (_exactly_ as it appears in the file):             InputSource __is =               new InputSource(new StringReader(String.valueOf(                                              ((XMLGenerator.toXML( (XSPRequestHelper.getParameter(                                                                        objectModel, "class", null, null, null))                                                                        Helper.getAll())).asXML()))));     I think the <xsp-request> tag is causing the linebreak between the XSPRequestHelper.getParameter() and Helper and causing compilation errors, because the compiler expects a closing parenthesis or comma there. Even if there is a way to prevent the linebreak from appearing, I think the compiler would still have a problem. What really needs to happen is that this value should get evaluated _before_ the java file is generated, so the java file simply has something like in case 1 - SingerHelper() instead of the call to XSPRequestHelper.   Can this be done?   However, I am pretty sure this will not cause problems in passing parameters to methods using the <xsp-request> tag since the commas are going to be there and we are ot expecting it to generate a class name like in this example.   Best Regards, Sreedhar _______________________________________________________________________ A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy