Re: MarkupBuilder combining attributes and content

Ken Pelletier wrote:
> How can I use MarkupBuilder to generate html elements that have both 
> attributes and content?
>
> I can't seem to locate any examples anywhere, but it's such an essential 
> case I'm sure it's supported.
>
> Eg:   <td class="foo">some content here</td>
>
> mb = new MarkupBuilder()
> mb.td(class:"foo")  // yields <td class='foo' />
> mb.td("some content here")  // yields <td>some content here</td>
> mb.td(class:"foo", "some content here") // yields <td class='foo' />
>
> I believe there was an example on the wiki here  
> http://wiki.codehaus.org/groovy/TreeBasedSyntax  but that page seems to 
> have disappeared today - at least it's been inaccessible to me since 
> this afternoon.

Though that's a very common use case, unfortunately, MarkupBuilder is 
quite limited and cannot generate such simple tags.
You'll have to use StreamingMarkupBuilder which you can build from 
Groovy sources (since in the last build, due to a build problem, this 
class hasn't been included in the distribution).
To know how it works, you should have a look at DocGenerator.groovy in 
the source distribution, there are some good examples of its usage.

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