> Even if its not added to Struts (and there is a reason not to - it  
> relies on naming conventions FormName.fieldName - which seem reasonable 
> 
> to me, but aren't mandated by Struts), its all yours to use.  It makes  
> sense to put it in some kind of sandbox or "goodies"/contrib area of  
> the Struts codebase though.

Erik,
I really like the idea of the tag and I've added my suggestions for
improvement to the bug report.

http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18015

> 
> > Also, just a query, Does your tag extend MessageTag ?
> > Is it a good idea to do that ?
> >
> 
> No, it doesn't.  See here:
> 
>       http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/struts/ 
> struts-resume/src/web/org/appfuse/webapp/taglib/ 
> LabelTag.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
> 
> I personally do not find it worthwhile to extends Struts tags.  They  
> are not designed as I would have designed them (subclassses not  
> exposing some parent class attributes in the TLD is *bad* IMHO) and the 
> attributes on the MessageTag are not needed for my label tag.  All I  
> need is key, nothing else.

I made some effort recently to refactor the tags into more appropriate
chunks.  While they're still not great for subclassing, they have
improved.

David

> 
>       Erik
> 
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