April 2004
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
20h 4m
English
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Developing the HTML Template and the View Specification
This custom ViewHandler works with
views described by a
combination of an HTML template and a view specification file. The
HTML template for the newsletter subscription view looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Newsletter Subscription</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form">
<table>
<tr>
<td>Email Address:</td>
<td><input id="form:emailAddr" size="50" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Newsletters:</td>
<td>
<span id="form:subs">
<input type="checkbox" value="1">foo</input>
<input type="checkbox" value="2">bar</input>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<input id="form:save" type="submit" value="Save" />
</form>
</body>
</html>It’s a plain XHTML file with id
attributes for the elements that represent JSF components. To keep
the example simple, I’ve used id
attribute values with the JSF naming container syntax, but a more
sophisticated implementation would make it possible to use plain
values instead. The reason for using XHTML instead of HTML is also to
keep the implementation simple. There are parsers that can parse HTML
and present it to an application as XML, so a real implementation can
support both HTML and XHTML without too many modifications.
For the checkboxes, I’m using a
<span> element to give the whole group one
id attribute, because the whole group is handled
by one JSF component. The <input> elements
within the <span> element are ignored when the view is rendered, but serves a purpose during the template design to see how the page ...
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