September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 38m
English
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Creating Applications with Mozilla
by David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, Eric Murphy
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Chapter 9. XUL Templates
XUL templates are dynamically generated XUL elements and groups of XUL elements. They are often used to render lists and tables that display mutable, frequently updated data, such as your Inbox, your list of bookmarks, and user profiles. A XUL template can be used to create something as simple as a list of menu items, as you will see here, but it can also be used in much more exciting ways, as shown at the end of this chapter. You should consider using a XUL template instead of XUL when you want to create an interface that displays data, such as a roster of names, when the set of data is very large, when the data may change frequently, or when you create a display that you want to use for different sets of data.
RDF, the format for data that goes into templates, is described in detail in Chapter 10. The actual data used to build the template examples is displayed in Examples Example 10-1 and Example 10-4. However, this chapter precedes the RDF chapter because templates are much easier to understand than RDF. Extending on the XUL programming done in Chapters Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, templates are a practical application of RDF data. They can also help you understand the abstract concepts introduced in Chapter 10.
9.1. Understanding XUL Templates
By defining special rules and applying them to data stored in RDF files, XUL templates build user interfaces dynamically. A XUL template consists of a set of special tags inside a XUL element -- often <listbox>
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