ajax4jsf FastFilter issue

[lle]

Hi,
I have to use FastFilter in order to overcome the performance issue with large documents. However, when my document has an empty div:

<div class="heading"></div>

the response of an Ajax call gave me this:

<div class="heading"/>

This has caused rendering issue on IE. Is there a way for me to tell the Ajax filter to parse empty elements with explicit close tag?

Thanks
ly

[sergeysmirnov]

Are you speaking about Ajax response or pre-ajax behavior ?

Why do you decide this is a parser convert

<div></div>

into

<div/>

[lle]

Hi,

It is the Ajax response. I didn't say it's a parser convert. It might be an issue with FacesServlet. However, in my facelets xhtml document, i did explicitly put

<div></div>

But, after the ajax call, the ajax response contains

<div/>

I am still debugging to see where the conversion happens. However, if I used Filter instead of FastFilter, the TidyParser gave me the output

<div></div>

So I was wondering if there's somehow for me to set the NekoParser to expand empty elements.
Thanks.

[lle]

Hi there,

I debugged and it is the NekkoParser that changed

<div></div>

to

<div/>

Can I somehow change this behavior?

Thanks.

[lle]

Deeper debugging into ajax4jsf code and I found the code where the short div was generated.
It is the method endElement() of class org.ajax4jsf.xml.serializer.ToStream. Here is a code snippet of the method:

public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String name)
throws org.xml.sax.SAXException {
 ...
 if (m_elemContext.m_startTagOpen)
 {
 if (m_tracer != null)
 super.fireStartElem(m_elemContext.m_elementName);
 int nAttrs = m_attributes.getLength();
 if (nAttrs > 0)
 {
 processAttributes(m_writer, nAttrs);
 // clear attributes object for re-use with next element
 m_attributes.clear();
 }
 if (m_spaceBeforeClose)
 writer.write(" />");
 else
 writer.write("/>");
 /* don't need to pop cdataSectionState because
 * this element ended so quickly that we didn't get
 * to push the state.
 */

 }
 else
 {
 if (m_cdataTagOpen)
 closeCDATA();

 if (shouldIndent())
 indent(m_elemContext.m_currentElemDepth - 1);
 writer.write('<');
 writer.write('/');
 writer.write(name);
 writer.write('>');
 }
 ...
}

As you see, when the element is empty, the element is written in the short form (e.g. ).

Can ajax4jsf be enhanced to take in a property to tell the serializer to expand empty elements?

This has caused serious layout issues with IE. Without a fix, I am forced to rerender the entire page instead of ajax when it comes to big response. It's a trade-off for using TidyParser instead of NekkoParser.

Thank you very much.