I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm just not understanding you.
If I use "<tiles:insertAttribute name="foo" /> and Foo was defined as a string, the end result is a visible string in the page. I have trouble perceiving that as a definition, while it naturally fits my concept of "insert." Perhaps your concern is that there might be some indeterminacy between whether any given attribute value might refer to a specific definition or is actually intended as a mere string value. I'm open to the position that this is unnecessarily confusing, although my current feeling is that that's not such a serious problem. The original point, however, was that it is valuable to be able to have a tag which inserts content based on an attribute's value whether that value is a "template" (any valid servlet path) or a "definition" (something which Tiles can use to invoke a servlet include including other tiles processing.) If the tag which does this never includes a literal string, I would not find that a big problem. But if I need to know ahead of time whether I want to insert a template or a definition, I think that's a shortcoming. Joe On 1/16/07, Antonio Petrelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry for not writing, but a job "storm" hit me, and I am changing place of work (and town). Anyway, comments are below. Greg Reddin ha scritto: > I like the idea that a tag that displays something on > the page should indicate so in the tag name. Maybe we need to clarify > the > difference between "defining" and "inserting". The problem is that "defining" and "inserting" an attribute is made by the same tag. In other words, I see "defining" as specifying a "setAttributeName" method in a class, while "inserting" is the use of that attribute. In the case of <tiles:attribute> (or <tiles:insertAttribute>) it is defined (you can fill this attribute) and used (where the tag is, the attribute is inserted). The problem is that inserting an attribute is substantially different to inserting a template or a definition (layout pages for attributes, composite pages for the latter ones), so a simple "insertAttribute" does not give a complete idea of what it is. Ciao Antonio --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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