On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Matt Raible wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:40:27 -0700
> From: Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'Struts Developers List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Enhancement Request - add label and labelKey to form elements
>
> I agree, and does require more work, considering:
>
> <html:label for="name">
>       <bean:message key="prompt.username"/>
> </html:label>
>
> Is more typing than:
>
> <label for="name">
> ...
> </label>
>
> Maybe something like this would make it more useful:
>
> <html:label key="prompt.username" />
>
> I was thinking of reducing the prefixes in my struts-xdoclet app from:
>
>  html -> h
>  logic -> l
>  bean -> b
>  tiles -> t
>  nested -> n
>
> Would this create too much confusion (even though it would require less
> typing?)?
>
> It much rather type <h:label key="prompt.username" />
>

Officially, the prefix used on an XML namespace (and custom tag syntax is
just a user of this) is *always* up to author of the instance document (a
JSP page, in our case).  Any documentation that uses a particular prefix,
such as our user guides, is just a suggestion.

That being said, the JSTL libraries went pretty much towards this approach
(single-character prefixes where feasible), and I'm currently leaning that
way on JavaServer Faces as well.  IT makes sense to consider this.

> Matt

Craig


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