stxx - 1.0.0
By Jeff Pennal, OpenRoad Communications (www.openroad.ca)
What's new in 1.0.0
- Full support for handling validation errors in ActionForms has been
added
- The transformation code has been abstracted out into an extendable
BaseRenderFactory class so you can now create your own rendering
engines to do the XSL transformation.
- There is a new CachedXSLRenderFactory class which supports caching of
XSL for increased performance. (Thanks for Don Brown for the code)
- Localization works!
- You can set the directory where your debug output files are written to
for the rest, see the CHANGES.TXT file for details
http://www.openroad.ca/opencode/stxx/changes.txt
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Struts for transforming XML with XSL (stxx) is an extension of the
struts framework to support XML and XSL without changing the
functionality of struts .
stxx sit's on top of struts, extending it's existing functionality to
allow Action classes to return XML that will be transformed by an XSL file.
The idea of stxx is to remove the need to be use JSP and TagLibs for the
presentation layer of this framework. However, stxx does not force you
to go the XML/XSL route, both technologies will work side by side.
Adding XML/XSL support to struts is ALMOST as simple as adding the
following tags to your struts-config.xml file:
<action scope="request"
type="com.oroad.stxx.example.ExampleWelcomeAction"
path="/welcome">
<forward name="success">
<!--
the transform tags take the XML returned by the Action
and transform them. The transform tag used is determined
by matching the user agent against the name attribute
(or default if nothing matches)
-->
<transform path="/login.xsl" name="default"/>
<transform path="/login_netscape.xsl" name="Mozilla" />
<transform path="/login_msie.xsl" name="MSIE"
render="client" />
</forward>
</action>
stxx features:
- Enhances the <forward> tag in the struts-config.xml file to allow
one-many <transform> tags. These <transform> tags represent the XSL
file to be used depending on the user-agent of the browser accessing
struts
- stxx automatically appends the ApplicationResources file as XML to the
Document object returned by the new Actionclass.
- stxx also automatically appends the request parameters and attributes,
as well as ActionErrors as XML to the Document object.
- stxx will allow you to push the job of transforming the XML to the
browser
- You can convert the XML output of your Action class to PDF or SVG via
xsl:fo
Resources:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/struts-xsl/, the official stxx mailing list
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Senior Software Developer f:604-694-0558
Openroad Communications e:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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