Definitely interested!
-AMT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Jones
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 11:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Lists in a JSP
>
>
> with tags a better way would be to have two tags, one that
> manages the data
> and one that controls the ouput, so you have this
>
> <xx:dataTag>
> <xx:outputTag />
> </xx:dataTag>
>
> The data Tag returns EVAL_BODY_TAG from doAfterBody until all the 'rows'
> have been consumed by the outputTag.
>
> Why do it this way? well you could easily plug in different ouput tags for
> the same data (so an unordered list, an ordered list or a table say), and
> obviously have different data tags for each output.
>
> I have some code to do this somewhere, if I get a chance (or if anybody is
> interested) I'll tidy it up and post it to my web site,
>
> Kevin Jones
> DevelopMentor
> www.develop.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Castro
> > Sent: 25 May 2000 19:04
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Lists in a JSP
> >
> >
> > Actually, this seems to me to be the perfect opportunity to
> > create a custom
> > tag. So far, I have only created tags to conditionalize our
> > online help, but I
> > know that you can create tags for iteration. You could put in
> > something like
> > this:
> >
> > <mylib:List type="pull-down" source="USStates" />
> >
> > and then code the corresponding Java class to blow this out into
> > a full HTML
> > pull-down list box. Sure is a lot cleaner than putting in a
> bunch of <% %>
> > code. And a lot easier to maintain, too.
> >
> > -David Castro
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > --- Jim Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > A question for experienced JSP/bean developers:
> > >
> > > It seems to me that a common task in a JSP is to output a list
> > of some sort
> > > where the contents and length of the list are variable and
> > obtained from a
> > > bean (for example, when creating a pull-down menu of dynamic
> > options). And
> > > from what I've read, there's no automatic way to do that (by automatic
> > > I mean something akin to "jsp:getProperty"). So it has to be
> programmed,
> > > having the bean return an array or an Enumeration (etc.), and
> then using
> > > a scriplet to loop through the elements.
> > >
> > > But for the same reasons that "jsp:getProperty" is preferred
> over using
> > > an expression tag to access the bean's "get" method directly, I would
> > > think that there'd be something similar for looping through
> > dynamic lists.
> >
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