Bingo! I'm new to this open source thing and don't know how to go about
getting a new tag library started. Doesn't a committer have to do that?
Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: Morgan Delagrange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:56 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Another suggestion for DBTags
Sounds like a suggestion for another tag library, not for DBTags. :)
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Sean Rohead wrote:
> 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.
>
