Tiles allows you to do this as well. btw: I have replied to another reply in this same thread about other things I like about tiles. In my usual haste I deleted the original message when I realized there was something more I wanted to say.
- sandeep --- Darryl Pentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've discovered quite by accident that the Struts > templating framework > allows me to eliminate duplication of my JSP pages > by simply including the > body page inline to the template definition page. By > this I mean I combine > both pages into one as follows: > > <template:insert ...> > <template:put name="header" ... /> > <template:put name="nav" ... /> > <template:put name="body" ... /> > > ... BODY HTML GOES HERE ... > > </template:put> > </template:insert> > > I'd previously enquired on this list how I could > eliminate the duplication > of the pages where the main body HTML exists in a > separate JSP page that is > simply referred to from the definition file i.e. > <template:put name="body" > content="/blah/blah/body.jsp"/>. Strangely nobody > responded with the above > solution so I'm wondering is this simply a > side-effect of the PutTag class > or Craig, did you intend for it to work this way? > I'm quite surprised I > haven't seen this technique used in any of the > examples. Rather, the > duplication is suggested. The new Tiles extension > allows the above which > prompted me to try it with the Struts template tag > library just for grins, > and it worked! > > Is there a problem with doing it inline like I > illustrate above? I looked at > the source code and I see the PutTag class does > extend BodyTagSupport so > everything should work fine. So far, the stuff I've > played around with seems > to work fine with no problems. > > Any feedback would be appreciated. > > thanks, > Darryl Pentz > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
