Hi,
In the past I've used a few different JSPEngine implementations with the
(2.1.x) JSP generator & reader. On iPlanet there was one that was configured
with the fully qualified class name of its JSP servlet (can't remember offhand
which one it was, but that's not important). On Websphere I'm using one that
looks it up based on the servlet name ("JSP 1.2 Processor" or something like
that). However, sometimes (even on the same app server type) I've had to tweak
the configurations to avoid getting errors like "Text content found before
prologue". Since switching settings to e.g. use RequestDispatcher.include()
instead of .forward() fixes this, I don't think there's actually anything wrong
with the JSP output. Best I can think of is maybe it's struggling with a
0xFFFE UTF-8 byte-order marker prior to the initial xml processing instruction.
But I digress.
I actually find the fact the JSP generator requires the JSP to produce valid
(or at least well-formed) XML is actually quite limiting. I had to rewrite
various exisiting JSPs that were producing HTML, to output a single top-level
DIV element and make the rest valid XHTML; with other static HTML files I just
used the jtidy or neko generators to clean them up instead.
My first thought was to create a modified JSP generator component that passed
the output through neko/jdity before parsing it. And then inspiration hit -
why not instead create a new input Source for JSPs? That way, JSPs that
produce XML can be processed by the default (file!) generator, ones that
produce HTML can be processed by the HTML generator, and you could even have
ones that produce CSV be processed by (you guessed it) the CSVGenerator. Seems
much more flexible to me.
And then I started to over-think it :-) Why only JSPs? Why not servlets too?
How does this differ from the context: source type? Surely someone must have
thought of doing this before - is there no similar facility already? What
about in Cocoon 2.2 - would the servlet/blocks framework that keeps getting
discussed cater for this anyway?
At which point I figured the best thing to do was to dump my thoughts to the
list and see if anyone had any feedback or suggestions...
So, what about it? Would this be a useful addition to the JSP block? Or is
there already a similar facility that I'm overlooking?
Andrew.
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