Sounds good, question: If I have this:
<mco src="com.myCompany.myMco"/> What happens? We will try to make a new com.myCompany.myMco, that that doesn't exist will we do a require() on it? To me that would make the most sense. 1. IF there is a path, load from that path 2. If there isn't, try a require on the src James Margaris -----Original Message----- From: Michael Turyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: A change to MCO declarations A Xal file's mco declarations now can take a "path" attribute in order to specify source-code for the constructor indicated in 'src', e.g.: <mco:mco xmlns:mco="http://www.openxal.org/mco <http://www.openxal.org/mco> " id="attributeSetter" src="AttributeTesterAlias" path="../widgets/AttributeTester.js" /> Why?: It's better that xal pages and even tags be as self-contained as possible, and in particular a tag that points to an object should be able to find its definition. This is good in and of itself (for example, cutting and pasting from an old file into a new one), and because eventually I'd like to see a simple servlet page that will take a xal uri as an argument, and embed the xal in an otherwise blank page: [...] out.println("<body onload="Xap.createEmbeddedApplications();">") ; out.println("<div startPage=\"" + request.getParameter("startPage") +"\"") ; if(request.getParameter("applicationName") != null && request.getParameter("applicationName").length()>0){ out.println(" applicationName=\"" + request.getParameter("applicationName") +"\"") ; } // Any other Xap parameters?: [...] ; out.println(">") ; [...] (And, of course, the server could be set to do this embedding automatically for .xal URIs.) When?: If the mco "src" doesn't resolve to a valid constructor, we look for a "path" attribute for the MCO, and if one's found, load from the URI indicated there (usual restrictions on XmlHttpRequests in mozilla apply). (We do this in this order so that we don't make too many requests---we might want to change that behaviour if we should want the mco to point to dynamic content from a servlet or server page, perhaps via an "updatable" attribute.) How?: A few more blocks of code in McoNamespaceHandler.
