We currently have a website with only a couple of pages. Page1 serves
as a front controller that allows people to browse a catalog and add
things to their shopping cart. Page2 lets them view their shopping
cart.
Page1 is a .jsp filled with scriptlets and custom tags. I'd like to
convert this page to HTML and pull all of the logic from the custom
tags into utility classes that we can use from our servlet to
manipulate the HTML DOM using XMLC. One thing that is going to be
tricky is that one of our custom tags creates a nested table structure.
The database contains a hierarchy of categories and those categories
are arranged in an HTML table in a way that's easy to grok. Would
there be any problem turning that custom tag into a utility class that
just returns the whole nested table HTML as one fat String and slapping
that into the DOM with a setFooText(fatStringHere) call? Or do we need
to create new nodes in the DOM and create every HTML element present in
the nested table structure?
Since we already have this code working I'd like to leave it as is if
at all possible.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
-M@
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