Is your item list coming from a database? David Schwartz
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Brewer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recursive Functionality with Tags I'm new to Tags and still hip-deep in getting my first JSP project off the ground and very much appreciate all the great support in this forum. Thank You! My question is at the end of all this (in case you want to skip over the rest)... **BACKGROUND I have an "outline" or "directory" type structure that consists of an ArrayList that contains objects that have ArrayLists full of the same kind of objects that each have ArrayLists full of.... and so on. I want my HTML page to look something like this with each sub-item indented: FIRST ITEM FIRST SUB-ITEM SECOND SUB-ITEM FIRST SUB-ITEM THIRD SUB-ITEM SECOND ITEM THIRD ITEM FIRST SUB-ITEM FOURTH ITEM **CURRENT SOLUTION I made this work on my JSP page using the following code: <% // get the ArrayList from the request ArrayList al = (ArrayList) request.getAttribute("issuesList"); %> <%=writeIssues(al, new String(), 50) // call the writeIssues function - returns the outline%> <%! String writeIssues(ArrayList al, String myOutput, int indent) { // sort the array list alphabetically Collections.sort(al); Iterator iter = al.iterator(); Issue myIssue = null; while (iter.hasNext()) { myIssue = (Issue) iter.next(); // append the string with this issue title myOutput = new String(myOutput + "<p style=\"margin-left: " + indent + ";\">" + myIssue.getName() + "</p>\n"); // recurse by passing this issue's ArrayList, the ever-growing string, and a new indent value myOutput = new String(writeIssues(myIssue.getChildren(), myOutput, indent + 50)); } return myOutput; } %> **QUESTION Can I do this somehow in JSTL? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
