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Views in JAOO

Views are generated by methods that read XML files using JDOM and stitch XML templates together. For example, the events schedule is generated by: 

XML genEvents(TreeSet t) {
  XML x = templateScheduleDay;
  String hour1 = "";
  String minute1 = "";
  String hour2 = "";
  String minute2 = "";
  XML y = templateScheduleBlock;
  Iterator i = t.iterator();
  while (i.hasNext()) {
    Element e = (Element)i.next();
    String h1 = e.getChild("start").getAttributeValue("hour");
    String m1 = e.getChild("start").getAttributeValue("minute");
    String h2 = e.getChild("stop").getAttributeValue("hour");
    String m2 = e.getChild("stop").getAttributeValue("minute");
    if (!h1.equals(hour1) || !m1.equals(minute1) || !h2.equals(hour2) || !m2.equals(minute2)) {
       if (!hour1.equals(""))
         x = x<[events = templateScheduleEvents<[start=genHM(hour1,minute1),stop=genHM(hour2,minute2),block=y]];
       y = templateScheduleBlock;
       hour1 = h1; minute1 = m1; hour2 = h2; minute2 = m2;
    }
    if (e.getName().equals("talk")) 
      y=y<[event=templateScheduleTalk<[
                    track=genColor(e.getChildText("track")),
                    speakers=genEventSpeakers(e),
                    title=e.getChildText("title"),
                    extra=genExtra(e.getChildText("link"),e.getChildText("linktext")),
                    room=genRoom(e.getChildText("room"))]];
    else 
      y=y<[event=templateScheduleBreak<[title=e.getChildText("title")]];
  }
  if (!hour1.equals("")) 
    x = x<[events = templateScheduleEvents<[start=genHM(hour1,minute1),stop=genHM(hour2,minute2),block=y]];
  return x;
}

Notice that the code does not contain any mark-up tags, but only refers to template constants such as: 

const XML templateScheduleEvents = [[
<tr>
<td valign="middle" align="center" width="100"><[start]> - <[stop]>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top"><[block]></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="5"><hr></td></tr>
<[events]>
]]

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