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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:35:45 +0200
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
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Leszek Gawron wrote:
> Sylvain Wallez wrote:
>> Actually, I'm more and more annoyed by Jexl: JXTemplate is the *only* 
>> place in Cocoon where Jexl is used, and I would love to see it 
>> replaced by JavaScript expressions. Script/expression language 
>> consistency throughout Cocoon...
> hmmm... we have touched the subject once. At the time you have pointed 
> me with some javascript helper class to get the basics of rhino but I 
> lost that message. Do you happen to remember what class it was?
>
> This shouldn't be 'that' hard.

Oh no, damn easy! See JavaScriptHelper in CForms.

But the problem is elsewhere: what syntax will we use for JS expression 
in JXTG. I would love to have it replace Jexl in "${}" expressions but 
it ain't that easy as it will break all existing templates.

We should have a configuration in the new JXTG that associates prefixes 
of the "{" character to languages.

Sylvain

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Sylvain Wallez                        Anyware Technologies
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