lightweight version of ECS

[Daniel HERLEMONT]

Hi jon!   I am looking for a lightweight version of ECS.   Do you know if such packege already exist   I would like to use ECS like SW to generate on the fly HTML within applets. Then I pass the HTML generated string to a javascript function to display it   This is not possible with the current version: 157KB I think we can reduce it by streamlining the current version.   For example we can avoid methods like     "public IMG addElement(Element element)" which purpose seems only to save typing.   An other example of optimization could consist in defining all attributes as final String (which are interned), for we can write   TD  td=new TD(); td.addAttibute(ElementAttributes.ALIGN,AlignType.center); td.addAttribute(ElementAttributes.WIDTH,20);   with the ElementAttributes class defining     public static final String ALIGN="align";     public static final String ALIGN="width"; and other commn attributes     rather than defining       public TD setAlign(String align)     {         addAttribute("align",align);         return(this);     } of course this version could require more typing, but the main benefits of ECS are still preserved: closing tags, objects and subcalssing object could be easier. And subclassing is the usual way I worked with ECS. For example, I rarely use TD as is, but a MyTD class where I define common things for all my TDs. The same apply for tables, Document, ... since all classes are extending ElementAttributes, we can omit ElementAttributes for constants and it becomes more readable     This could be an optimisation even for the current version, by saving memory allocation time and size