More detals...I'm trying to make a custom tag for JQuery's jqGrid plugin. There is quite a bit of config that goes into the plugin and I wanted to make it easier to reuse across an application. So to give a more accurate example I might have something like this:
And this would result in the appropriate javascript code on the page. So I need the column data available to jqg:grid so that I can construct the information correctly. I struggled for a while trying to do a real taglib and I am just not getting it. Tag files I understand. I just don't know if what I want to do is possible.
You can use <c:set> in the child tags to record data in the request for use by the parent tag. If it gets too grody, you can revert to using SimpleTag implementations, or a combination (parent is a tag file to emit HTML/JS, child tags are SimpleTag to record data easily).