[TAP5-237] Add support for skinnability via a dynamic layout component

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 5.1.0.0
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 26/Sep/08 09:06
• Updated: 09/Aug/11 18:42
• Resolved: 09/Aug/11 18:42

Description

Working with a client, we've come up with an excellent plan for a component that supplies dynamic content via a non-Tapestry XHTML template.

Essentially, the DynaComponent (temporary name) reads and parses a well-formed XML file. Within the XML file, certain elements will be replaced with parameter Blocks to the DynaComponent.

Assuming that the parsed XML templates can be cached efficiently (as a kind of token stream, ala Tapestry's internal representation of a parsed component template) this could work quite efficiently.