Re: [OS-webwork] Using the JPS's XML syntax with Webwork and Sitemesh

Joel Rosi-Schwartz Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:35:48 -0800

Scott,

Thanks for the quick reply. Please see my comments inline.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Joel,

Answers inline.


Joel Rosi-Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ..

Hi,

I am building a site with Sitemesh and Webwork and I am having two 
problems that I would appreciate assistance with.  We have adopted doing
all of our JSP development using the XML compliant syntax rather than 
the older JSP propriatary syntax. Both problems I have relate to this.
For the record I am using Sitemesh 1.5, Webwork 1.2.1 and I am running
on JBoss 3.2 with Tomcat 4.1.12 embedded. These are running on RH Linux
7.3 with Java  1.4.1.

The first problem, is that when I do a very simple JSP page using the 
xml syntax with a page as such:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <jsp:root
        version="1.2"
        xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
      >

        <html>
            <head>
                <title>User registration</title>
            </head>
           <body>
           </body>
        </html>
    </jsp:root>

the page shows but there is no Sitemesh wrapping present. If I 
substitute plain HTML or JSP propriatary syntax into the same jsp file,
then Sitemesh wraps the page just fine. My understading was that 
Sitemesh did not care how the page content was produced, so this 
behaviour is very surprising to me.


At the moment decorators in sitemesh.xml or decorators.xml only decorate content of type text/html.  Is it likely that the content you produce is of text/xml ?

Ah, right on the money. After explicitly setting the content type to text/html all is fine. Thanks.

The second problem is more basic. Is it even possible to use the Webwork
taglibs in jps that uses the xml syntax? So far my testing has indicated
that this does not work and my guess is that it is because the taglibs
use templates that spew out the old style JSP.  So in the end I am 
trying to mix oil and water. Is this accuarate? If so, would translating
the templates resolve the issue or are there more fundamental changes 
that would have to be applied to the taglib library itself?


There should be no problems if you substitute the templates for your own.  It should be very simple to test however.

Are you saying that my analysis is correct or are you saying that I need to test if the templates are the cause of the problem?

Can I ask why you are going with the new syntax?

Sure:

if one already works with XML on a regular basis it is a lot easier to read and write
being plain old XML we can use all of our xml tools and processing on the web pages
I believe that it will eventually be the standard and the old syntax will die away or at lease become deprecated. But seeing how this is the web that may take longer than I care to worry about ;-)
it is, in our opinion, more elegant and aesthetically pleasing

I guess I have to make choice at this point. Do I:

stay with Webwork and give up the preference
do the extra work to modify all of the templates
go back to using Struts

Hmm, wish life was not so hard :-( By the way, one of the main reasons we went with Webwork was that I was very impressed with the work that you and Mike have done with Jira using it. So I know that the results with WW can be very high quality, that makes it harder to choose.

Cheerio,
Joel

Cheers,
Scott

- joel

Re: [OS-webwork] Using the JPS's XML syntax with Webwork and Sitemesh

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