[jsr-314-open] aggregating tag libraries under a common namespace

[Martin Marinschek]

Hi Dan,

this sounds reasonable to me.

As a work-around which might work even now: Couldn't you also choose
the variant of using the Java-based tag-library processing, and then
parse the XML files yourself?

regards,

Martin



On 5/16/09, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have often encounter the situation where I want to append a tag to an
> existing library to avoid having to introduce a new namespace and, as a
> result, a fine-grained division of tags. However, currently, the mapping is
> such that you get one tag library per taglib.xml file. More than one
> taglib.xml, more than one tag library. Would it be possible to have the
> implementation detect two taglib.xml referencing the same namespace and
> merge the tags? Obviously, a startup exception would occur if the same tag
> is declared in more than one file with the same namespace, but I hardly
> think that would be much of an obstacle to the developer.
>
> To cite a specific use case, we want to have multiple modules in Seam, but
> we really don't want to have more namespaces than we need. Of course, we
> could get the build to merge the XML files, but that might not be possible
> if the developer is deploying the framework as separate JAR files.
>
> -Dan
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