Add capabilities to simplify handling of complex HTML tables
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Key: VELTOOLS-102
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS-102
Project: Velocity Tools
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: GenericTools
Environment: No specific requirements on the environment are known
Reporter: Matthias Laux
This is a feature request for a tool that simplifies the handling of complex
HTML using Velocity. The basic idea is to take the pain out of using complex
hierarchies of Velocity macros to place HTML tags such as <tr> and <td> in the
right places for tables with non-trivial structures (using e. g. colspan and
rowspan). This is made possible by handling the logical table data structure in
Java code and by using a dedicated Table class to communicate information in
between the Java application and the Velocity context.
A short discussion thread can be found in the forum using this link:
http://velocity.markmail.org/search/?q=table+cell+laux#query:table%20cell%20laux+page:1+mid:du3pucnapp6ezbzp+state:results
Based on that initial contact, follow-up discussions with Nathan Bubna took
place over the last few months. Effectively, a 1.0 version of this tool was
already built by Matthias Laux, the submitter of this reature request issue.
The sources will be attached.
Additional information on what the tool does and what the code actually looks
like can also be found in this article:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2008/jw-01-htmltables.html
Remaining work needs to be done for example on implementing unit tests. The
effort estimate relates to these.
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