[seam-dev] Suppressing parameter inclusion for s:link

A couple of our more vocal users have been pushing for JBSEAM-3609 and JBSEAM-2310 to be fixed, and while the issue is legitimate Pete and I couldn't arrive at a definite conclusion as to how to correctly address it. To summarise the problem, when a user has a page with a menu containing a lot of links (each using s:link), each of the page parameters defined in pages.xml for the views referenced in the links cause instantiation of whatever Seam component is configured in the parameter value. The main problem with this is the performance hit from having to create so many components just to render the links. We identified two possible solutions - either introduce an attributes in pages.xml which when set to true suppresses the parameter values from being rendered, or introduce an additional attribute in s:link and s:button which does a similar thing for that link only. The advantage of controlling it in the view is that it offers more flexibility, being that you can choose when to include or exclude the parameter values. However, the real question is which would be the more semantically correct place to control it. Does anyone have any opinion either way about this?