Derek Dougans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Do you mean you generated JavaScript based on the table's meta-data and
>dynamically wrote that into the document?
>
Yes, something like that, it was
a while ago, and I don't have the code
to hand (my palm and I are on a train),
but I remember it set the
maxlength for the html field set
a star next to it if it was manditory
and I think it inserted whatever it
could (browser dependant) to ensure the field only accepted numbers/upper case or
whatever.
>More generally, what have people done with integrating html/servlet code? Is
>caching some pre-written templates with data placeholders and manipulating
>these at runtime an acceptable approach? I was thinking of having my product
>classes implement a 'ProductDisplay' interface such that they know how to
>render their data with respect to the data placeholders. Something like:
...snip...
>I'd really like to abstract data/process/display (not keen on using JSP for
>this reason) and this is as good as I can think of.
>
On the (old) project I was talking
about, we used fragments of fixed
text and glued them together
dynamically, interspersed with
with dynamic data. We only got
away with this because the client
is -very- process bound, so once
a UI has been documented and
accepted it is a major issue to
change it (think retraining in 20
countries).
You could probably get the effect
you want by using fragmentary
servlets,'included' from a master.
These days we just output XML
from the servlet ,
and post process it through an xsl
transform to Html, ascii, wml or
in an extrem case Sql as required.
Tim
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