Hi Adam,

that stuff looks really great!

-Matthias

On 2/16/06, Adam Winer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's not a TLD file, since TLDs simply don't have any
> of this information.  Instead, it's a faces-config file.
>
> Our approach is that TLDs and JSP tags in general
> are secondary artifacts;  faces-config is the primary
> artifact.
>
>
> -- Adam
>
>
>
> On 2/16/06, Bill Dudney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That is great Adam,
> >
> > Is the source of the docs in the link below a standard tld file? if
> > so that is great!
> >
> > TTFN,
> >
> > Bill Dudney
> > MyFaces - myfaces.apache.org
> > Wadi - incubator.apache.org/wadi
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 16, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Adam Winer wrote:
> >
> > > FWIW, one of the tools that will be coming from the ADF Faces side
> > > of things is a Maven 2 report that goes from our metadata to
> > > tagdocs that are a big improvement over the tlddoc generated
> > > docs.  Tlddoc is pretty awful for JSF - every type is String,
> > > nothing is "request time", there's no list of facets or events,
> > > etc.  The docs we will generate have a structure more like:
> > >
> > >   http://tinyurl.com/bkayl
> > >
> > > I say "will" because I tried rewriting the tool a couple of weeks
> > > ago using the AbstractMultiPageReport base class in Maven 2.0.2
> > > and ended with conclusion that this bit of Maven 2 is
> > > currently completely broken.  Grrrr....
> > >
> > > -- Adam
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/15/06, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>> I disagree with the removal of the usage section.  The usage section
> > >>> shows how to use the component in context which is not always
> > >>> obvious.
> > >>>  I don't see a problem with making it optional for trivial
> > >>> components,
> > >>> however.
> > >>
> > >> Yes well some usage sections are better then others.  I took a look
> > >> again after reading your comment and some of those are decent.  I
> > >> guess we can keep/port the existing ones for now.  Perhaps we can
> > >> consider dropping again when we have the simple examples hosted on
> > >> the
> > >> zone.  The examples themselves show usage and the source code servlet
> > >> allows you to see the JSF.  No sense maintaining two copies at that
> > >> point.
> > >>
> > >>> I'm also not thrilled with the removal of the syntax section, but I
> > >>> agree that the TLD docs could be a substitute.   My preference would
> > >>> be to see the syntax section generated from the same source as
> > >>> the TLD
> > >>> docs, but I'm not volunteering to do the work at this time.  :)
> > >>
> > >> I agree that the automatic generation would be excellent.  I'm not
> > >> volunteering either.  The TLD docs are done automatically and I
> > >> bet if
> > >> we looked carefully we would see that many of the components are
> > >> already out of sync since its hard to keep the documentation up to
> > >> date.
> > >>
> > >>> At minimum, the link to the TLD section should point directly to
> > >>> the TLD
> > >>> document for the component in question rather than to the TLD index.
> > >>
> > >> I agree.  That was what I was thinking.
> > >>
> > >>> Also, before the syntax section is removed, the TLD docs must be
> > >>> updated to contain the same information.   That's not currently the
> > >>> case (I used dataList as a test of this theory).
> > >>
> > >> Good point.  This could be done as each component is migrated to APT.
> > >>
> > >>> -Mike
> > >>
> > >> Sean
> > >>
> >
> >
>


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