Re: How to extend StrutsMenu?

On Feb 1, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Ahmed Mohombe wrote:

> Hi,
> I would like to extend the StrutsMenu a little, but I can't find where 
> is the right place to start and do :(. It seems to me everything too 
> nested (because I don't know the framework).
>
> What I would like to change:
> The generated menus (in the browser), look something like:
> <li><a href="/help.html" title="Help">Help</a>
> and this was generated from this config.xml:
> <Item name="Help" title="Help" action="/help.html"/>
>
> I would like StrutsMenu to generate me additional HTML tag attributes, 
> especially an ID attribute:
> <li id="myID"><a href="/help.html" title="Help">Help</a> OR
> <li><a id="myID" href="/help.html" title="Help">Help</a>
> from this config.xml:
> <Item id="myID" name="Help" title="Help" action="/help.html"/> OR
> <Item custom="myID" name="Help" title="Help" action="/help.html"/> (if 
> "id" is already taken)
>
> I would like to make this this for "velocity-nicetabs".
> Has someone any hints or idea how/where to make the changes?

Since you're using Velocity for your menu, you should be able to alter 
the template that you use for this menu.  You could add a "name" 
attribute to the item and then use that in the "id" attribute of your 
link.

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ahmed.
> P.S. Is there a DTD for the menu config.xml (to allow xml editors to 
> check for the right syntax, and autocomplete for smarter editors :) ) 
> ?

No, not right now.  A few folks have submitted some, but they were just 
generated from their editors.  I do need to create one and hope to as 
part of the next release.

Matt



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