I think that's a great idea.
And to go one step beyond, you wouldn't have to call the child elements
"arg0", "arg1"...you could just use "arg" (or probably something like
"bean:arg").
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aapo Laakkonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Custom tag question
>
>
> Is it possible to have custom tags that can have both child
> elements and
> attributes? I mean that in some cases it would be more elegant to use
> elements instead of attributes:
>
> <bean:message key="text.welcome">
> <arg0><bean:write name="un" property="firstname"/></arg0>
> <arg1><bean:write name="un" property="firstname"/></arg1>
> </bean:message>
>
> or:
>
> <bean:message>
> <key>text.welcome</key>
> <arg0><bean:write name="un" property="firstname"/></arg0>
> <arg1><bean:write name="un" property="firstname"/></arg1>
> </bean:message>
>
> instead of this:
>
> <bean:message key="text.welcome"
> arg0="<% = un.firstname %>"
> arg1="<% = un.lastname %>"
> </bean:message>
>
> Or it would be even more flexible if you could use both of
> them (at the same
> time).
> This was just an example and at least I have found many
> places where I'd
> like to
> use child elements instead of attributes.
>
> Or is it just me who thinks that those runtime expressions
> are pretty ugly?
>
> -- Aapo Laakkonen, +358 (50) 33 99 682, ProjectCast Ltd,
> Helsinki, Finland.
>
