Matt,
what I'm currently doing is something like this: In, say, x.jsp I write
...
<tr><td> class="feedback">
<bean:message key="login.error.1">
<img...>
<strong><bean:message key="login.error.2"></strong>
</tr>
whereas in AppRes.properties I have
login.error.1=...
login.error.2=...
Yeah, it is rather uncomfortable--and only necessary if you really need
to have support for i18n--but I can be sure that after a designer
changed the page design there are no disturbing effects coming from my
language definitions. The designer can concentrate on the .jsp file and
does not need to care about language--in the ideal case ;-)
The same concept should work for your table header definitions.
tom
Matt Raible wrote:
>
> Tom - it seems that you are correct, my html does show up correctly.
>
> The reason I have html in my properties file is because I want to display
> certain images with my messages.
>
> Let's take the following key for example:
>
> error.password.mismatch=<tr><td class="feedback" height="20"> <img
> src="/dc/common/images/iconWarning.gif" width="12" height="12"
> align="absmiddle" alt="Warning"> Invalid username and/or password,
> please try again.</td></tr>
>
> I can probably move <tr><td>...</td></tr> into my jsp page, but I'm already
> using error.header and error.footer with html, so this seemed natural:
>
> errors.header=<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
> errors.footer=</table>
>
> I could probably also parameterize my <img ... /> so that this could be a
> different key in my properties file, but then I'd have to add a little more
> code to my action classes (or validation.xml file).
>
> This brings up another point - I wish I could dynamically set the path to my
> image, using a scriptlet or <bean:write> tag, meaning replace "/dc/common" with
> "<%=pathToImages%>" - but doesn't seem to work.
>
> We get all our static files through the webserver (vs. appserver) - that's why
> I can't get it from the war.
>
> Matt
>
> --- Thomas Quas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Matt,
> >
> > I'm not sure whether I understood the problem correctly, but I did the
> > same thing for a while, and it worked for me without "flush" or other
> > tricks. I simply included the message via <bean:message key="x"/>, not
> > matter whether there was HTML in it or not.
> >
> > Note, however, that it can be problematic to mix layout and content
> > information. This was the big disadvantage of HTML, and people tried to
> > address it with XML and stylesheets, making the two independent of each
> > other. I'd recommend putting layout information, such as <b>, <p>, <br>
> > etc. in the .jsp, whereas the .properties file should only contain
> > content. This way your translators don't need to know HTML. Of course,
> > we might open up another can of worms here if we don't have the same
> > page layout for all languages.
> >
> >
> > Just my $0.02, tom
> >
> >
> > Matt Raible wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using <bean:message key="key.name" /> and I want to have HTML in my
> > > key.name string, such as:
> > >
> > > key.name=<b>Hello World</b>
> > >
> > > So ideally, I could make my tag resemble <bean:message key="key.name"
> > > flush="true" />, but there is no filter attribute on this tag?
> > >
> > > How can I do this, do I have to use <bean:write>, and if so, how do I get
> > the
> > > messages bean?
> > >
> > > Can it be done using:
> > >
> > > <bean:write name="messages" property="key.name" flush="true" />
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
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