RE: [Springframework-developer] Commons-Validator for Spring

[Matt R. <li...@ra...>]

> On 03-11-2004 23:21 -0500 Daniel Miller <mi...@pa...> wrote:
> > Your first request: make it work with XHTML 1.0 Strict
> 
> I'll second that motion. I find it very unpleasant to realize 
> that a taglib 
> generates non-validating output into my carefully validated pages.

Actually, I've tested this with the current Commons Validator and the
JavaScript doesn't care if you have name="x" on your form or id="x".  So
it's really just a question of whether other taglibs generate valid
<form> markup.  Struts doesn't generate XHTML 1.0 Strict markup b/c of
the name vs. id attribute.  Personally, I aimed for strict compliance
for about a year and found it was more trouble than it was worth.
Transitional works just as good and you still get well-formed XML.  Any
reason you prefer Strict over Transitional?  

> 
> > Second: Only included the necessary JavaScript
> 
> Is it not possible to keep the majority of the Javascript in 
> a separate .js 
> file? This way it only gets loaded once?

The validator in Struts has this capability.  At the bottom of a form
you want to validate you just put:

<html:javascript formName="userForm" cdata="false"
      dynamicJavascript="true" staticJavascript="false"/>
<script type="text/javascript"
      src="<c:url value="/scripts/validator.jsp"/>"></script>

Where /scripts/validator.jsp has:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="javascript/x-javascript" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html"
prefix="html" %>

<html:javascript dynamicJavascript="false" staticJavascript="true"/>

This pulls from validator-rules.xml and produces the following:

http://demo.raibledesigns.com/appfuse/scripts/validator.jsp

You'll have to likely save it to disk to see the contents.

Matt