If you need to create a link, take a look at PageRenderLinkSource. Then create your component so that it generates the html using the MarkupWriter.
Josh On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de>wrote: > Hi. > I would like to have a component that is able to create arbitrary > hypertext, and I'm not sure, if there's a better way to do that than I have > in mind currently. > > My database contains spatial geo data from the OpenStreetMap project, and > I would like to generate texts as they probably could be part of an old > styled text adventure or something like that. > > Let's do an example: > > [snip] > The page /explore/way/12423 refers to one object of the database, a > geographic linestring, e.g. a street. > From the database I get more information about the way and would like to > assemble these into a text like the following: > > You are at the [Abbey Road] between [Marcus Square] and [Church Alley]. > The [Westminster Abbey] is on your left. > From here you can cross the [Marcus Square] to straight ahead follow the > [Abbey road towards the River way], or you can... > [snap] > > I think, it's enough as an example. > The parts in brackets should be page links or action links, leading e.g. > to the /explore/way/2413 (and other ids) for other streets or /details/3432 > for details about the abbey or other points of interests - imagine opening > hours of a bar, service times for a church or a website link. > > Currently I know two variants how to achieve that: > 1) Use a template that models all possibilities on how to assemble that > kind of text, e.g. as a big loop with many ifs assembling atomic parts > (like links, static texts and so on) together, and create a corresponding > object collection in java. > 2) Create a component without template and render directly - with the big > drawback that I have not yet any idea how to inject tapestry components > like ActionLink or PageLink to that. > > Any hints or example pages are welcome. > > regards > Peter > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@tapestry.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
