[Springframework-developer] Revisiting XSLT View

[Rob H. <ro...@in...>]

All,

As part of the RC1 release I will be revisiting the way XSLT views  
are constructed in Spring MVC. This is work I plan to carry out  
alongside (http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/ 
SPR-1249).

I plan to introduce an XsltView class that *does not* require  
subclassing and a corresponding XsltViewResolver. The basic idea is  
to have a view that functions in a similar manner to the  
JasperReports view. The view name will be translated into an XSLT  
template URI by the ViewResolver and an XsltView instance for that  
XSLT template will be created. Then the view will attempt to locate  
the source in the Model using a simple resolution algorithm. I  
propose that this algorithm will search for:

1. DOM Documents
2. Node objects
2. Source objects
3. Strings?
4. Readers?

It will convert this into Source implementations as appropriate and  
expose them to the XSLT processor. It will be possible to configure  
the exact name of the Model parameter to look at for this source  
object, to provide deterministic semantics in more complex use cases.

Any other ideas/requests - let me know.

Rob