On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Scott Cressler wrote:
> One thing this argument might come down to is why custom tags, especially
> for "if...else" stuff (which, BTW, IMHO is not handled real well by the
> struts tags...would be nicer to have more flexibility in the conditions you
> can check and to have the ability to do else, rather than
> <logic:equal>...</logic:equal><logic:notEqual>...</logic:notEqual>...but
> that's another discussion :-). In other words, if it is so easy to just
> slap some Java in their to do some conditional stuff, why use a clumsy tag.
>
It turns out to be surprisingly difficult to come up with syntax for an
"else" construct that is legal XML syntax and isn't really ugly.
There's currently work going on in the JSP Standard Tag Library effort
(JSR-052) to create tags that will eventually be known to all containters
in the same way that tags like <jsp:useBean> are -- which will also deal
with a lot of the performance related concerns. It looks like there will
be reasonable ways to do "switch" and "if-else" type processing with them.
In the mean time, we can reconsider adding an "else" capability in Struts
1.1, if someone can come up with a good syntax.
Craig
