Oliver,
Thanks for the info. Sorry my question was not clear enough...but you have
understood correctly. The "Element Construction Set" is what I am looking
for.
However, I know I can use inline/referenced CSS on the client, but we are
still working to IE3, which is a bit flakey with CSS. I would rather the
html formatting (colors etc) be written inline in the servlet response.
Having a package like the "Element Construction Set" format the HTML output
with reference to a server CSS file would allow the formatting to be changed
by altering the server CSS file, rather than re-write the servlet. It looks
like we will have to add this functionality ourselves -
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Koell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HTML output
At 11:01 28.07.00 +0100, Andy Phelps wrote:
>This question is a more general servlet question rather than JRun (so
please
>forgive).
>
>I am looking for a package which wraps HTML into a set of classes allowing
>me to generate HTML in a method call.
>I am aware of WebLogics htmlKona product which partially meets my
>requirements. However, I would ideally like a package that reads the a
HTML
>format layout (e.g h1 color) from an external file (say CSS) and format the
>HTML output accordingly (rather than formatting directly in the method
>call). Does anyone know of such a (glorious) package?
Andy,
i'm not sure i understand your problem with "HTML formatting". HTML
rendering is done by browsers, not by servlets. If you want to use CSS, you
just have to link your stylesheets with your HTML, i.e. generate one HTML
tag like
<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="/mystyle.css">
If you want to create HTML from your servlet through a class interface
instead of print() methods, you could try the "Element Construction Set"
from the Apache Project:
http://java.apache.org/ecs/index.html
Another possibility is to use the Document Object Model (DOM -
http://www.w3.org) to create your HTML pages. This has the advantage that
you can parse HTML templates into a DOM tree, modify it in your servlet and
send it to the browser. This way your servlet code is mixed only minimally
with your presentation code (HTML). The Enhydra Project has a nice product
- XMLC - which works this way:
http://www.enhydra.org
There are probably many other options...
Regards, Oliver
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