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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17391 HTML text tag needs to format its content like Bean write ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-25 22:43 ------- This sounds useful on the face of it, but in practise I believe it is untenable. This is due to the round-trip nature of the <html:text> tag and its interaction with the form bean. In addition, such an attribute results in both the Action (or possibly ActionForm) and the JSP page having to have (the same) knowledge of the text formatting. Suppose that your form bean property has the value "300" (as a String). When the page is displayed, the value in the text box might now be shown as "$300". If the user now submits the form - without changes - the form bean now has the value "$300". Notice that the property value changed *without the user making any change to the value*. The code that put "300" in the property now has to deal with "$300" coming back, and has to "know" the specific format that the JSP page used, in order to be able to untangle the text and retrieve the "real" value. In addition, as James points out, going back to the JSP page without modifying the property value will cause the formatting to fail. This is not related to whether the property is a string or an integer. Trying to format "$300" as a currency value will fail even if there is an implicit string-to-number conversion in the format code, because "$300" is not a valid number. Even if the formatting simply prepended a '$', now you'd end up displaying "$$300". This just isn't workable. If the property value needs formatting, then the formatting and the parsing of that format need to both happen either in the ActionForm or in the Action itself. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
