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Write Multiple Full HTML 'Files' to Single Output Stream?

Answer 1

+1 A:

You will have to use iframes or frames to do this. A single web page can only contain one set of html tags and thus one html page.

Another idea would be to render the page by your script and then capture a picture of it and then have a page containing images. You will of course loose all interaction with the page.

MitMaro 2009-07-08 18:50:23

Answer 2

+1 A:

Just leave out the <html>/</html> tags for each page and wrap the whole thing inside a single large ....

Like this maybe:

<html>

[page1Content]
<hr />
[page2Content]
<hr />
[page3Content]
<hr />

</html>

Nate Bross 2009-07-08 18:50:54

This will work well with simple pages if you parse out everything not inside the pages body tag. However if the page contains any css styles or Javascript then the page will probably break. Also if he is concerned with validation of the page then there is a good chance using this method will not validate. :)

MitMaro 2009-07-08 18:55:30

Agreed, my method is a quick and dirty approach.

Nate Bross 2009-07-08 19:34:53

Right, but I want each page to potentially have separate CSS definitions in the header, etc. I think the iframes is the way to go, just not sure how to get my content inside the frames without specifying it via the src= attribute.

Seth 2009-07-10 04:10:05

Answer 3

+1 A:

I'm not sure what you're trying with your frames, but I imagine frames should work OK for what you've described.

Instead of trying to post to more than one URL from your form, you just post to a servlet that returns a page with the frameset, and each frame has a source that points to one of the URLs you want to test. For example:

<form action="testServlet" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="someValue" />
</form>

The testServlet then returns a page with this content:

<frameset rows="33%,33%,33%">
    <frame src="testUrl1?someValue=value">
    <frame src="testUrl2?someValue=value">
    <frame src="testUrl3?someValue=value">
</frameset>

The only problem with this is that you're doing a GET instead of a POST, but that's easy to get around. All you would need do is to implement the doGet method within your servlets and just call doPost from within doGet.

Ickster 2009-07-08 19:31:11

this approach might work for me, thanks for the tip!

Seth 2009-07-10 04:11:08

Glad to help. Feel free to ask for clarification on anything if you need it.

Ickster 2009-07-10 14:56:30

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