Hello, What i'm missing too is the power of the recent mm:constraint tag and other tags that reside inside the various container tags like listnodescontainer.
Wouter > Hello , > > RvM taglib: > > RvM gave a great presentation about what is possible with the 2.4 servlet > api > his goals where to use a few simple tags, use jstl and the EL as much > as possible. > (only 3 tags !!). He also discussed the MVC approach. I missed that > part of in the presentation of the presentation tags. If the data is > to be fetched by the controller > the tags should be even more simple > jaco's simpletags http://www.dynasol.com/simpletags/1.1.2/ should be > sufficient > (and even better) because there is not logic in them. and is't > possible to create things like a html table/calender. > > I think the presentation was great , but the examples not realistic. > The mmbase taglibs make use of the hierarchy of the tags , thats on > the the great powers of the taglib. > <list> > <related> > <related> > </related> > </list> > </list> > This makes is easy to cut and past code around (no need to declare > variables) > > other examples where false to > <mm:node> > <mm:field name="bla"/> > </mm:node> > > can also be written as > <mm:node id="test"/> > <mm:field node-"test" field="title"/> > > but that is almost never used because it requires to define a test > variable. > > jtsp:forEach tags: > the forEach tag can be useful. but when people start using it they > will need the exact functions that are in the mmbase taglib > -know the size of the list > -know if the list is not empty > -know if this is the first / last element > > those simple functions are not provided by the jstl (maybe the flow > taglibs are for that purpose). > > We also discussed if it was not possible to create an other taglib > next to the presentation taglib. This taglib would be the data taglib, > and could be used as dataprovider for the presentation taglib. Still > having a controller is a good thing > for stuff like authorization and for global functions > _______________________________________________ > Developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers > _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
