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Created by Dr. Xi on June 22, 2011 13:23:19
Last update: April 30, 2012 11:40:06
This is a utility to convert a byte array to hex string, and to convert a hex string back to the original.
To convert a String to hex, you must call String.getBytes() first. The utility does not pretend to know your string encoding.
public class StringHexUtil {
public static ...
This also works:
String binaryToHex(byte[] data) {
StringBui...
Created by Fang on April 16, 2012 13:32:10
Last update: April 16, 2012 13:32:10
There are two steps to create a custom function for JSP:
Declare the function in the TLD:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<taglib...
Implement the function (must be static):
package com.example;
public class UrlTransl...
To use the function:
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.example.com/jsp/tags" p...
Created by Fang on April 16, 2012 12:58:35
Last update: April 16, 2012 12:58:35
To implement a JSP custom tag with dynamic attributes (for example, to pass-thru arbitrary attributes not handled by the JSP tag):
Set the dynamic-attributes element to true in the TLD:
<tag>
<name>mark</name>
<tag-class>c...
The tag handler must implement javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.DynamicAttributes :
package com.example.jsp;
import java.io.*;
...
Created by Dr. Xi on March 08, 2012 12:13:57
Last update: March 08, 2012 12:13:57
This example creates an instance of XMLGregorianCalendar and converts it to java.util.Date :
import java.util.Date;
import javax.xml.datatyp...
Created by Fang on December 06, 2011 19:03:25
Last update: December 07, 2011 08:54:11
Our custom tag, as implemented in the previous note , is broken when a template is used.
Create a template file ( home-template.xhtml ):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric...
and a test page that uses it ( home.xhtml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui:comp...
Then request the page with URL: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/home.jsf?name=Jack .
You'll find that our hello tag works inside ui:repeat but fails to get the value defined by ui:param ! What's the problem? Our hello tag implementation evaluated the EL with the wrong EL context!
This is the corrected implementation:
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
Created by magnum on August 11, 2010 19:22:06
Last update: November 28, 2011 08:16:22
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.S...
Output:
Date LONG format: November 28, 2011
Date MEDIUM...
Created by nogeek on November 27, 2011 12:24:27
Last update: November 27, 2011 12:24:27
There is no XSLT 2.0 support in the JDK as of 7.0. According to Stackoverflow , there are three Java packages that support XSLT 2.0: Saxon IBM WebSphere XML Feature Pack Oracle XDK There are no known support for XSLT in browsers. According to Wikipedia : XSLT is developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The most recent version is XSLT 2.0, which reached W3C recommendation status on 23 January 2007. As of 2010, however, XSLT 1.0 is still widely used, as there are no products that support XSLT 2.0 running in the browser, nor on some important server environments such as LAMP. Expressions like this:
format-date(xs:date('1999-12-31'), '[D01] [MNn] ... where format-date is a XSLT 2.0 function and date is a XPath 2.0 constructor...
Created by nogeek on November 03, 2010 20:52:49
Last update: November 23, 2011 08:54:44
My problem is simple: in my XML data, a timestamp is provided as a long integer (number of milliseconds since the "the epoch"). When I do XSLT, I want to display it as a readable string, such as "Mon Nov 01 18:08:48 CDT 2010". After hours of struggle, I found: It's not so easy to get the job done with JDK 1.6 There are tons of garbage on the web in this space (suggestions, code snippets that simply don't work) Simple Xalan extension functions was the only resource that's somewhat informative. Even there some of the examples don't work. Below is a list of what worked and what didn't. This works:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="h... This does not (providing long value to Date constructor): <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="h......
Created by Fang on November 21, 2011 15:57:49
Last update: November 22, 2011 09:51:26
The improved custom taglib works with existing facelet ui taglibs. For example:
<ui:param name="theName" value="John"/> <my:hel... produces the expected output. However, a problem exists with the ui:repeat tag: <h3>With ui:repeat</h3> <ui:repeat var="theName... When tested with a URL like: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/?name=Zack&name... the raw EL prints out the correct names, but my custom tag substitutes empty string for theName2 ! In theory, the response is rendered in the Render Response phase, way after the Apply Request Values phase, actual values should be available to EL. The answer to this anomaly turned out to be very deep ! Yes, right there in the code! I would consider this a bug in facelets implementation, but the JSF spec did not tell what the expected behavior should be. In my custom...
Created by Fang on November 21, 2011 13:49:11
Last update: November 21, 2011 13:49:11
In the test for the simple taglib example , I used a literal string for the name attribute:
<my:hello name="Jack"/> What happens if the name attribute contains EL expresson? For example: <my:hello name="#{param['name']}"/> If EL works, the tag should take the value of the " name " request parameter and print it out. But the tag as implemented in the simple taglib example prints the literal string: Hello #{param['name']}! I am FaceletTag. In order to make a tag to recognize EL, we have to use TagAttribute.getValue(FaceletContext ctx) instead of TagAttribute.getValue() . The latter returns the literal value of the attribute. The HelloTagHandler should be changed to: package com.example; import java.io.IOExcep... Rebuild the taglib and test with a URL like this: http://localhost:8080/facelet-test/?name=Jack The tag will print:...
