"YOUSFI, Zahi" wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm looking for documentation for the jakarta XSL Tag Library.
> why the <xsl:apply/> tag does not appear in
> http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/xsl-doc/index.html ?
>
That's a good question, although it is probably better directed to the
TAGLIBS-USER mailing list. I have cc'd someone working on Taglibs (Pierre) to
take a look at this).
Craig
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Envoyé : jeudi 22 février 2001 19:18
> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet : Re: using XML and Struts
>
> "Fickes, Vic" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Being new to the world of web applications and Struts, I'm still trying to
> > decide on an architecture to use for our application.
> > One of the things I had been hoping to do was to make use of some legacy
> > code that publishes XML from our database and then translates it to HTML
> > using XSL. However, it seems you can't use XSL to translate to Struts
> html
> > tags (or any JSP custom tags). So before I completely drop the idea of
> > using XML and XSL, does anybody know of any approach that would allow me
> to
> > use XML in the context of the Struts framework?
> >
> > I thought of using Digester, but since this is all new to me, my first
> > impression was that the implementation would get to be too complicated to
> > make it worthwhile. I also ran into the Cocoon project in my wanderings,
> > which seems like a great solution if all you're going to do is builds
> > displays, but I've got to do some heavy duty editing and validating of
> input
> > data and I don't see how Coccon supports that. If anybody could provide
> > some suggestions on using these or any other approachs, I'd appreciate it.
> >
>
> One integration opportunity is the <xsl:apply/> custom tag, which is
> available
> in the Jakarta Taglibs project <http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs>. This
> tag
> lets you dynamically request XSLT transformations over XML data gathered
> from
> any of a variety of places, and then render the transformed information
> (presumably HTML in this case) to the resulting page.
>
> In a similar vein, Struts itself uses offline XSLT transformations to create
> the
> documentation pages you see in the Struts Documentation application. The
> Ant
> build tool <http://jakarta.apache.org/ant> has a <style> task that can apply
> XSLT transformations in build scenarios.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vic
>
> Craig
