This is an interesting idea, which could be even more useful if the convertors were able not only to produce strings, but also XML snippets for output-only data. For example, we may want an email address to be rendered as a <a href="mailto.."> or negative numbers being displayed in red, or enclosed in parenthesis.If I would be able to choose convertors in the template (I mean on the same page render model entry in plain text and pretty printed) it would solve a LOT of my rendering problems. If convertors were pluggable I could also choose which convertor I would like to use in template itself.
What that means is that a convertor should be able to do the following conversions:
- string+locale --> object : parsing request parameters
- object+locale --> string : producing the value of an input
- object+locale+channel --> xml fragment : producing the output view for a particular channel (html, wap, fo, etc).
Lovely
How would this converters be plugged into template language? As components in cocoon.xconf?
About syntax in JXTG: Would ${convertor-name:expression:formatting-info} be enough?
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