On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Arno Schatz wrote:
> David,
> having XMLC compile your HTML means that the HTML files get parsed at
> compile time rather than runtime. Which makes your application faster. But a
> more interesting feature (at least for me) is that XMLC checks for errors.
> If they designers did not put in all of the id and other elements you are
> expecting, then the XMLC compiler can detect that for you.
>
> I like it because the designers can not mix up your code, because there is
> no java in the HTML.
I could not have said it better... ;)
>
> In our development environment (which uses make-files) the html-pages are
> automatically compiled if they change, so that's no big deal. We have
> recently developed a plug-in for JBuilder, which compiles the html-files for
> you right out of the IDE.
kewl. Is the plug-in available somewhere? open-source?
>
> have fun,
> Arno
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
> > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David
> > Bullock
> > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 7:15 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Free Servlet Tool - XMLC in context
> >
> >
> > Bill, like you I am an XMLC enthusiast. But I find it difficult to get my
> > developers to use it because of the need to regenerate and
> > recompile the XMLC
> > class.
> >
> > Do you know why they decided to require compilation, and fix the
> > dependencies on
> > the API of the generated class, instead of a more dynamic mechanism?
> >
> > (This question asked pending implementing a more dynamic mechanism for
> > tag-replacement myself).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David.
> >
> >
> > "William G. Thompson, Jr." wrote:
> >
> > > This is a great idea!
> > > But there already is a better solution, XLMC from enhydra.org!
> > > XMLC compiles standand html files to java class files. This is
> > a much more
> > > elegant solution IMO. The HTML interface files don't need special place
> > > holder tags, only standard HTML ID tags. And the complied java class
> > > files implement the standard DOM from the W3C.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Garth Fisher wrote:
> > >
> > > > Tired of storing HTML as Strings in you Servlet classes?
> > > > Don't want to switch to JSP?
> > > >
> > > > PreparedHTML lets servlet programs separate HTML
> > > > from Java code. It is a simple, powerful, and small (one
> > > > source file).
> > > >
> > > > Check it out at: http://www.its.washington.edu/~garth/prep.html
> > > >
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