I like the tags for getting data from a result set (getColumn, getDate,
etc...), but it doesn't seem like these tags should be doing any formatting.
Rather, a set of general purpose tags for formatting dates and numbers need
to be written and these tags can enclose the result of getDate. There are
lots of cases where I want to format dates and numbers and putting this
functionality in the dbtags means that functionality is *only* available
when iterating over result sets -- bad. I'm thinking of something like:
<sql:resultSet id="results">
<format:date style="SHORT"><sql:getDate position="1"/></format:date>
</sql:resultSet>
instead of
<sql:resultSet id="results">
<sql:getDate format="SHORT" position="1"/>
</sql:resultSet>
Yes, it's more verbose, but far more flexible.
