I think templates or JSP handle the HTML question much better than
any scheme that embeds markup into programming code. Sometimes the
shell-style "here document" would be nice, but it seems you are
proposing a new Java language feature, nothing to do with servlets
per se.
Rod McChesney, Korobra
Luther Andal wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I apologize for getting a little puffy it just bothers me in any language when
> people get defensive about of "their language" without looking at what the added
> functionality's potential might contibute to the language. Your comment kind of
> broke the camels back. The rest of the people where bashing perl and perl
> really has nothing to do with the comment that I made it just happened to have
> the functionality in it. Take perl out of the equation. Tell me which is more
> affective.
>
> Java's Way currently
>
> println("<HTML");
> println("<BODY>");
> println("</BODY>");
> println("</HTML>");
>
> or
>
> println("<HTML>\n<BODY>\n</BODY>\n</HTML>");
>
> An example of what I am talking about, though it may have to be some other type
> of syntax to work. I don't currently know exactly how it would work but that is
> why I put the idea forth. To everyone to think about a way to build a class
> with a method that could implement the idea.
>
> printBlock(
>
> <HTML>
> <BODY>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
> );
>
> Of course an HTML page would contain a lot more lines of HTML but this gives an
> idea of what I am talking about
>
> if you had to edit the HTML which one would you prefer? If you had to generate
> a bunch of HTML say to layout a table for a report which method would you
> prefer. Say the table needed four nested tables to get the look you wanted and
> when you finished the result of the HTML was that nothing showed up in the
> browser because you forgot a closing </TD> tag. Which would be easier to debug?
> The last implementation is much cleaner and a non-Java programmer could change
> the HTML in a pinch if necessary. This is what Web Application Developers using
> Servlets face every day. Taking table data and generating an HTML GUI from it
> for example. This is what I am saying not that perl is better or that Java
> sucks but that I would like to have this functionality.
>
> Thanks for your comments and again. Sorry for any negative response I was
> frustrated that people where missing the point and arguing about Perl and Java,
> not the functionality
>
> Luther Andal
>
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