Re: [TM4J-users] TM4J project web site & XTM

[Niko S. <ni...@on...>]

On Thursday 22 November 2001 10:09, Gerd Mueller wrote:
> [...] What I don't like on JSP is the concept of writing Java Code in my 
> HTML site. [...]

Just to let you know, that this was on of our major design goals to have 
codefree HTML/XML pages when we designed the Navigator Framework 2nd 
Generation (which is used by Ontopia's Omnigator V). This is why we have 
chosen the Custom Tag Library aproach which allows also non programmers to 
participate in the Web App development. With this it's very easy (and just a 
few lines of XML statements) to retrieve information from your topicmap, 
process and present it (our custom tags are not allowed to produce any HTML)
meaning to embed it into whatever you like (HTML/XML/Plain) kind of velocity 
text generation tool, we have also written an environment for evaluating the 
pages outside a web container (for example from the command line).

> Also, does it always need to be HTML when I use JSP ? Or is it
> also possible to use XML ? I wouldn't like to be fixed on HTML. 

You are not bound a specific content type with JSP. So it is absolutely no 
problem to generate XML (for example we have built a WAP version of the 
Omnigator which renders WML).

Greetings,
Niko