Hi,
by chance you know where to find the spec of the protocol?
thanks
Alexander Jesse
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 4:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: calling a tag from custom-tag source
>
>
> Alexader says...
>
> > > I am looking for a way to call a tag from within the
> > > source-code of my
> > > own custom tag.
> > > Example: call a i18n-tag in a custom tag
> > >
> > > So far I have not found a solution to this problem...
>
> You have to replicate the tag handler/container protocol calls.
>
> This is manageable for simple Tag tag handlers, but it gets
> somewhta touchy for a BodyTag. Sorry. The complexity of the
> protocol is a consequence of multiple conflicting design constraints.
>
> - eduard/o
>
>
> Alexander Jesse wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I stumbled on this problem when I wrote a small application
> using struts.
> > I used the struts i18n support, with its resource-file.
> Later on I wanted
> > that the UI got fancier and wrote my own custom tag. Now within this
> > custom tag I found the need to put some information that
> was i18n-sensitive.
> > Of course in this case there was an easy solution (struts
> being OpenSource):
> > I copied over their code into my tag.
> > BUT
> > What is the tag, whose functionality one needs, is not open source?
> > What if struts changes there i18n implementation, will I
> need to re-engineer
> > their changes?
> >
> > Does this make the use case clearer? i18n is just a sample...
> >
> > regards
> > Alexander Jesse
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:57 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: calling a tag from custom-tag source
> >
> > I'm not quite following... could you provide a little more
> info on what
> > you're trying to do? e.g. what i18n-tag do you want to use
> & what about it?
> >
> > Some things might have simple solutions that you don't need
> to actually call
> > the i18n-tag source itself, but work in conjunction with
> it... e.g. if
> > you're just trying to get a value for a key from the
> bundle, just use the
> > i18n:bundle tag's id attribute to define an attribute in
> the scripting
> > language, provide that attribute name to your tag, then use
> > pageContext.getAttribute inside your tag to get at the
> bundle that i18n is
> > using.
> >
> > Most of what the i18n tags are doing are standard java calls
> > (java.text.MessageFormat, etc) once you've got the right
> ResourceBundle
> > object.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alexander Jesse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 1:47 PM
> > > To: taglibs-dev
> > > Subject: calling a tag from custom-tag source
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am looking for a way to call a tag from within the
> > > source-code of my
> > > own custom tag.
> > > Example: call a i18n-tag in a custom tag
> > >
> > > So far I have not found a solution to this problem...
> > >
> > > all hints are welcome
> > > Alexander Jesse
> > >
>
