we faced a similar issue and have been considering writing custom
renderers that render components with htm that better suits our site
design. not actually gotten around to doing that yet though.
dave
On 04/02/2005, at 4:20 PM, Norm Deane wrote:
I'm coming from a Struts/Tiles background and really like the Tiles
approach to page layout. My first endevour with JSF involves
converting an existing Struts/Tiles web application to JSF. I've got
the Tiles integration with MyFaces setup but as I was converting the
tiles (header, footer, body, leftnav, etc) I ran into the JSF
requirement that all template text and custom JSP tags in included
pages must be nested in a <f:verbatim> tag. This led to some really
nasty looking pages. For example, I found myself doing this on a
couple occasions...
<f:verbatim><div id="header"></f:verbatim>
<h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="This is my header"/>
<f:verbatim></div></f:verbatim>
Is there another way? How are other people breaking their JSPs down
into "modular" chunks so that they can be reused? I guess one answer
is to avoid template text and custom tags all together and just use
JSF components exclusively. Unfortunately in this case that is not a
realistic option.
Thanks,
Norm Deane
http://jroller.com/page/deanen
