On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:50, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Here's my question: has anyone done anything to replicate the jsp 
> custom-tag library functionality in w.w? PSPs are nice and all but they 
> fall down in the same places that ASPS/JSPS/PHPS fall down once you 
> start to mush code into presentation. The custom tag libraries were 
> *THE* way to solve that problem in the java world.

No, right now PSP doesn't do this.  PSP is being used by quite a few
people, but it's not being actively developed -- I guess for the people
that use it it's feature complete.  The code's not too complicated, if
you were interested in fiddling with it.

I haven't used them, but custom tag libraries always seemed a little
excessive.  What's the difference between a tag and a function call? 
You can subclass your PSP page from your own Python servlet, and put
reusable functions in the servlet, then call <%= self.whatever(...) %>
-- making it a tag doesn't seem to add much, except maybe a technique
for modularity.

> I think that ZPT/TAL is the solution for Zope but I'm not a huge fan of 
> going into Zope-world to rip stuff out and I'd much prefer if there was 
> a w.w. "native" approach.

If you're interested in ZPT/TAL, try:
  http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/index.html

TAL tires my fingers out, though.  Cheetah (cheetahtemplate.org) is
another templating language which is quite nice to use.

  Ian




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