Re: [Wonder-disc] Is there an equivalent for the ?key="value" syntax but for ognl inline bindings

[Helge H. <hel...@op...>]

On 27.03.2008, at 22:06, Mike Schrag wrote:
> Not currently, though it may be coming.  I still say $xxx is a better
> syntax than [xxx].  The problem is that configurable inline binding
> syntaxes makes things a complete mess.

BTW: What we do in SOPE is using XML namespaces/prefixes to select  
arbitrary WOAssociation classes, which IMHO is quite nice. Its a bit  
more to type, but it pushes WOAssociations to a new level, because you  
can actually invent new binding styles in a rather clean way. Just  
like with EOAssociations.
W/o it you are basically tied to WOValueAssociation and  
WOKeyPathAssociation (plus the OGNL ~ thing in Wonder).

Examples:
   <var:string value="customer.lastname"/>
   <var:string ognl:value="customer.getPreferredAddress().street" />
   <var:string xpath:value="xmlDocument:/customer/@lastname" />
   <var:string label:value="pagetitle" />
   <var:string format:value="%(customer.lastname)s: % 
(customer.amount)i" />
   <var:for plist:list="( a, b, c)">...
   <var:if js:condition="customer.code.match(/C\d+/)" />

We then have a bindings from 'ognl' to WOOgnlAssociation etc (actually  
from the XML namespace to the class in the XML case).

What I like about it is that we don't need to mess with the content of  
attributes, its always the string as-is. All the markup processing is  
just plain XML-NS.

Greets,
   Helge
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