.tag file - nested tags

[Garrett Smith]

Classic Tag Handlers are a pain.

Is there a way to enforce a .tag file so that it can only be invoked from another tag?

For example, can I enforce that tab.tag only be invoked from tabs.tag?

What's the best way to do it?

<a:tabs id="adv-actions">
   <a:tab id="reporting">
      <c:url value="/reporting.do">
    </a:tab>
   <a:tab id="view-gl">
      <c:url value="/gl.do">
    </a:tab>
</a:tabs>

Is gonna output:

<ul id="adv-actions" class="tabs">
 
   <li class="tab" id="reporting"><a href="/reporting.do"></li>
   <li class="tab" id="view-gl"><a href="/gl.do"></li>
   
</ul>

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Garrett Smith:
Classic Tag Handlers are a pain.

The Simple Tag Handlers are much easier to deal with. I use a mix of Simple tags (for tags best implemented in Java), and tag files (for tags best implemented in JSP).

Is there a way to enforce a .tag file so that it can only be invoked from another tag?

I assume you mean "within" rather than "from".

This would be much easier in a Simple tag handler. Is there a reason you want to use tag files for this -- or is that choice merely to avoid Classic tag handlers?
[ March 24, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Garrett Smith]

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:


I assume you mean "within" rather than "from".

That's what I mean.

Is there a reason you want to use tag files for this -- or is that choice merely to avoid Classic tag handlers?

tag files are easy.

[ March 24, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

It made it using dynamic attributes and a tokenized value (delim is "|").


<a:m4 id="myEventsTabs" bundle="${resBundle}"
selectedId="MyHistory"
MyCalendar="label.myCalendar|#"
MyHistory="label.myHistory|#"
></a:m4>

In the tag file, the undeclared attributes end up in the map, The map is iterated over.

Each entry.key is a tab id, the entry.value is split. The first part is the resource-bundle key, the second key is the href (just "#" for now).

I don't actually like using | to delimit data. It's obvious w/o explanation. It works. It could be cleaner.