Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Geert Bevin:
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> Everything works correctly, however in the menu.xml element you
> specify this:
> <element implementation="tutorial.friends.Display">
>
> This means that you will use the Display element implementation
> instead of printing the menu template. If you use this instead it
> will work:
> <element extends="rife/template/print.xml">
> <property name="name">menu</property>
I have not dug into Pierre's sample files, but when you specify
<element extends="rife/template/print.xml">
<property name="name">menu</property>
is this essentially the same as specifying something like
<element implementation="com.uwyn.rife.engine.elements.PrintTemplate">
<property name="template_name">menu</property>
I ask because this is (IMHO) a fundamental distinction which
is not (or was not) clearly made in the documentation. That
is to say, a page which needs to have hyperlinks generated
for exits, but which does not otherwise require a processing
backend written in Java, is easy to define -- but it does
require a reference to a specific named functionality (print
template) that is presupplied by Rife.
I wonder if there is a way to auto-detect and auto-implement
this, for example that an element declaration like this:
<element type="html" implementation="myapp.menu">
would automatically use the print-template functionality.
Exits would be declared in the usual way.
HTH
fred
--
F.Baube *
Georgetown/MSFS/1988 * Act locally.
email fbaube#welho.com * Think pangalactically.
gsm +358 41 536 8192 *
wmd 60°11'10.8"N 24°57'36.9"E
_______________________________________________
Rife-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.uwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/rife-users
