At a recent SUn technology days conference. A sun person said that when XML
Schema
becomes a standard, that they will have a tool that make java classes from
XML Schema
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> From: Li Ma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 11:44 AM
> To: Element Construct Set (E-mail)
> Subject: suggestions
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a brand newbie of Java and Web programming. Only two
> months experience.
> During the two months coding with Servlets, ECS 1.2, Apache,
> JServ, I get
> the following suggestions about ECS. Because I'm a newbie, I
> will not be
> suprised at all if I'm actually wrong. Please feel free to
> point out any
> problem in the suggestions. In case I happen to be right,
> please also post
> your opinion.
>
> 1. We need a good HTML, XML compiler to compile HTML/XML code
> into Java
> classes represented by ECS classes. I know there's a html2ecs
> in ecs source
> code tree. It doesn't work well. I tried long time to make it
> compiled. Then
> the compiled version doesn't support unclosed HTML tag.
> There's very good
> reason to have a flexible, stable HTML/XML compiler. You must
> have heard
> people talking about seperating HTML design from coding.
> Think about it, if
> we can convert existing HTML( designed by artists) into Java
> class. Then in
> our servlet, we manipulate the whole set of HTML entity by
> adding, deleting
> or changing value of element. Finally we can send the HTML
> result to client
> side by HTML.output(out). So we are able to work on a static
> HTML as base.
> And make it dynamic based-on servlet request. Serialization of ECS
> classes(already exist, right?) are required to help the process.
>
> 2. We need easy access to HTML element referenced by element
> name. In my
> experience, after I build a HTML object, then add bunch of elements, I
> couldn't find a way to go back and assign value to one of
> those elements.
> The only way I can change vaue of an element is I have to
> keep a reference
> to that particular object. The following example can express
> my opinion
> clearer:
>
> HTML html = new HTML(...)
> .addElement(...)
> .addElement( new Input( Input.TEXT,
> "txtUserName", "") )
> ...;
>
>
> I didn't find a way to assign default value of the text field
> txtUserName to
> "Administrator".
> If there's function that can help me get reference of the
> input element in
> object html, such as: Input userName = (Input)html.findItem(
> "txtUserName"
> );
> Then I can use userName.setValue(...) to set the default.
> This will be even useful when the html object is load from
> file instead of
> generated by code.
>
> Having the above two improvements, we can easily seperate web
> design and
> programing. A designer will generate HTML file by any HTML
> editor. Then
> programmer converts it into Java class, or serialize it into
> a data file. In
> servlet code, load the compiled data into memory, perform
> additional process
> based-on servlet request. Then output the result to client side.
>
> OK. That's all this time. Hope you can understand my poor English.
>
> Enjoy your coding!
>
> Li
>
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