Taglibs aren't just useful to people working with HTML, they are a great way to reuse logic in JSP's. Cutting and pasting scriplets IMO is not.
-Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:07 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Rendering alternate rows of a table in Struts > > > Well, let's be honest, dude. The great idea behind taglibs > in the first > place was to allow non-developers such as HTMLers and graphic > artists to be > able to manipulate content without understanding a > programming language and > keep real programmers (yes, I have a definition, if you are > interested) from > having to maintain the presentation layer. Now, from that > perspective, look > and my example and look at yours. Which is going to be clearer to a > non-programmer? > > Otherwise, look how complex using a taglib is to integrate into an > application, to say nothing of what it takes to develop a > custom taglib > (I've done it). I may sound like a heretic, but in my mind, SIMPLE > scriptlets are better than a tag to do the same thing - from > development, > integration, and maintenance perspectives. > > Mark (they don't call me Chief Eating Crow for nothing) Galbreath > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Kischuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:13 AM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Rendering alternate rows of a table in Struts > > > > That's all well and good but what happens when the author no longer > supports > > it, technology moves on, and somebody behind you has got to > maintain > > it? Doing it with scriptlets is as easy as > > > > <% int count = 0 %> > > <logic:iterate . . .> > > <% if( count % 2 == 0 ) { %> > > <tr bgcolor="coral"> > > <td></td> > > <% } else { %> > > <tr bgcolor="fuscia"> > > <td></td> > > <% } %> > > </tr> > > <% count++ %> > > </logic:iterate> > > > > What could be simpler and clearer? This methodology is > much easier to > > maintain than some esoteric third-party tags. > > <c:forEach var="currItem" items="${myCollection}" varStatus="info"> > <c:if test="${info.count % 2 == 0}"> > <tr bgcolor="coral"> > </c:if> > <c:if test="${info.count % 2 == 1}"> > <tr bgcolor="fuschia"> > </c:if> > <td>blah blah</td> > </tr> > </c:forEach> > > Simple. Clear. Standard. The logic is plain, JSTL isn't > going to have the > maintenance issues you mention, and there's no nasty > scriptlet delimiters > muddling the mix. > > -Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:52 AM > > There are a couple of you can't do it posts. We did it with a > jsp tag. One > of my co-workers found one on the web. Look around. There is > a freeware/open > > source one out there he found. He may have modified it some. > It is very > possible. We did it. Sorry I can't be more help but I don't > know the URL. > Mike > > >From: Justin Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: Rendering alternate rows of a table in Struts > >Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:50:36 -0500 > > > >You can do it quite easily with JSTL... > > > ><c:forEach var="row" items="${tabledata}" varStatus="info"> > > > > <c:set var="tdclass" value="blue-row"/> > > <c:if test="${info.count % 2 == 0}"> > > <c:set var="tdclass" value="red-row"/> > > </c:if> > > > > <td class="<c:out value='${tdclass}'/>">Data</td> </c:forEach> > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:35 AM > > > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > > > Subject: RE: Rendering alternate rows of a table in Struts > > > > > > > > > No. You have to use a scriptlet. But remember - philosophical > > > purity should always yield to pragmatism. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ritesh Singhal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:19 AM > > > > > > I am using logic iterate tag to iterate over a collection and > > > display the contents of the collection in the form of a table. I > > > want to render the alternate rows with different > background colours. > > > I don't want to use scriptlet for finding the row number > and set the > > > colour. 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