Hello, I read that article too since I'm trying to use xslt with struts.
I thought it was a great article, but I didn't agree with their approach. (I sent an email to the author about it and received no answer so far.) BTW, I'm by no means a struts, xsl or java guru. I'm just stating my opinion here, and I welcome any corrections or suggestions. So here it goes. The problem with their approach IMHO is that to create a true MVC environment (which is good), the approach is creating too much overhead (i.e generating XML on the fly and parsing it to feed the XSL, all at the runtime). Also one of the reason people like me love struts is because of the extensive tag-libs which allow you to eliminate business logic entirely from your jsp files. But what that article suggested was not using struts tags and jsps at all. So my approach of incorporating XSLT to struts is as follows: (this is only in conceptual level yet. Trying to get it to work in the near future though) - Create a form definition in XML (or use struts-config to define the form properties but I'd hate to touch the struts-config for business logic related stuff). - Create a XSL for the form - using the form definition and DynaActionForm, populate the instances of form beans. Or I am also considering pre-generating form beans based on the xml form definition (or use struts-config to define the form properties) - Action class doesn't have to know the details of the form bean. It's just going to pass the form beans to manager classes that handles database, etc. Using the form definition file, I could gererate prepared statements or something like that too. - At the deployment time, I would also like to pre-generate jsps out of XML/XSL using xslt such as xalan instead of doing the transformation at the runtime. From my brief testing, xalan seems to cache the generated templates, but still pre-generating the files would work better. The problem I need to solve is figuring out how to put struts tags in the XSL. The only way I could think of so far is put xsl namespace definition for struts in the XSL file (ie xslns:html) and replace the line with struts tag definition during pre-generation of the jsp files. Any thoughts would be appreciated. -----Original Message----- From: maya menon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:29 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: XSLT Struts The artcile is the same one from Javaworld that you sent me, I already downloaded the example, but it explains nothing. the article is good, but the sample is vague Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:here we go http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2002/strutsxslt/jw-0201-strutsx slt. zip http://www.oroad.com/opencode/stxx/download.html these are two custom approachs (both with java sources), but if I can tell my feeling on the question, I suggest -if your app is "large"- that you feed cocoon with you're serialized XML ... but I don't own such an example. By the way, could you please send me your wonderful article ? thank's & regards, fabrice. -----Original Message----- From: maya menon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: mardi 7 janvier 2003 18:05 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: XSLT Struts Fabrice I got a wonderful arcticle, But I need a good example.. do u have any or any suggestions\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi, go to javaworld.com and search for "XSLT struts" you'll find good articles + links to sources... regards, fabrice. -----Original Message----- From: maya menon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: mardi 7 janvier 2003 17:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XSLT Struts Hi, Can any body pls give me an example of using XSLT and struts.. Or can any one tell me how to convert the sample Struts application so that it uses Model 2 architecture rather than the usual JSP routines .... Any help apprecaied. I have had experience with both as seperate techs, but havent used both together.. I was going thru an article from Javaworld, and was thinking of how to make the sample struts application in such a way that it doesnt have any JSPs.. Any links, appreciated Thanks --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
