<section role="NotInToc" id="a4j_repeat">
   <title>
				&lt;
				a4j:repeat
				&gt;
				<emphasis role="since">
         <superscript> available since <emphasis role="version">3.0.0</emphasis>
         </superscript>
      </emphasis>
   </title>
   <section>
      <sectioninfo>
        <keywordset>
            <keyword>a4j:repeat</keyword>
            <keyword>component</keyword>
        </keywordset>
      </sectioninfo>
      <title>Description</title>
      <para>
          The <emphasis role="bold">
            <property>&lt;a4j:repeat&gt;</property>
         </emphasis> component implements a basic iteration component that allows to update a set of its children with Ajax.
    </para>
   </section>
   <section>
                    <title>Details of Usage</title>
                    <para>
                          The <emphasis role="bold">
            <property>&lt;a4j:repeat&gt;</property>
         </emphasis> component is similar to Facelets <emphasis role="bold">
            <property>&lt;ui:repeat&gt;</property>
         </emphasis> tag, 
                          which is used to iterate through a collection of objects binded with JSF page as EL expression. 
                          The main difference of the <emphasis role="bold">
            <property>&lt;a4j:repeat&gt;</property>
         </emphasis> is a possibility to update particular components (it's children) instead of all using Ajax requests. 
                          The feature that makes the component different is a special <emphasis>
            <property>"ajaxKeys"</property>
         </emphasis> attribute that defines row that are updated after an Ajax request. 
                          As a result it becomes easier to update several child components separately without updating the whole page.
                    </para>
                
     
                    <programlisting role="XML"><![CDATA[...
<table>
      <tbody>
            <a4j:repeat value="#{repeatBean.items}" var="item" ajaxKeys="#{updateBean.updatedRow}">
                  <tr>
                        <td><h:outputText value="#{item.code}" id="item1" /></td>
                        <td><h:outputText value="#{item.price}" id="item2" /></td>
                  </tr>
            </a4j:repeat>
      </tbody>
</table>
]]> ...</programlisting>
                    
                <para>
                      The example above points to a method that contains row keys to be updated. 
                </para>
                <note>
                      <title>Note:</title>
                      <para>
                            The <emphasis role="bold">
               <property>&lt;a4j:repeat&gt;</property>
            </emphasis> component is defined as fully updated, 
                            but really updated there are only the row keys which defined in the <emphasis>
               <property>"ajaxKeys"</property>
            </emphasis> attribute. 
                      </para>
                </note>
                
                
                    <para>
                          One more benefit of this component is absence of strictly defined markup as JSF HTML DataTable and TOMAHAWK DataTable have. 
                          Hence the components could be used more flexibly anywhere where it's necessary to output the results of selection from some collection.
                    </para>
                    
   	<para>If you want to output a collection as a plain HTML list, use the following structure:</para>
                    <programlisting role="XML"><![CDATA[...
<ul>
      <a4j:repeat ...>
	    <li>...<li/>
	               ...
	    <li>...<li/>
      </a4j:repeat>
</ul>
...]]></programlisting>
                    <para>All other general attributes of the component are defined according to the similar
                              attributes of iterative components (<emphasis role="bold">
                                        <property>&lt;h:dataTable&gt;</property>
                              </emphasis> or <emphasis role="bold">
                                        <property>&lt;ui:repeat&gt;</property>
                              </emphasis>) and are used in the same way.</para>
          </section>
   <section>
      <title>Reference Data</title>
      <para>
         <ulink url="&tlddoc;a4j/repeat.html">Table of 
							&lt;a4j:repeat&gt; 
							 attributes</ulink>.
						</para>
      <table frame="all">
                              <title>Component Identification Parameters</title>
                              <tgroup cols="2">
                                        <thead>
                                                  <row>
                                                  <entry>Name</entry>
                                                  <entry>Value</entry>
                                                  </row>
                                        </thead>
                                        <tbody>
                                                  <row>
                                                  <entry>component-type</entry>
                                                  <entry>org.ajax4jsf.Repeat</entry>
                                                  </row>
                                                  <row>
                                                  <entry>component-family</entry>
                                                  <entry>javax.faces.Data</entry>
                                                  </row>
                                                  <row>
                                                  <entry>component-class</entry>
                                                  <entry>org.ajax4jsf.component.html.HtmlAjaxRepeat</entry>
                                                  </row>
                                                  <row>
                                                  <entry>renderer-type</entry>
                                                  <entry>org.ajax4jsf.components.RepeatRenderer</entry>
                                                  </row>
                                        </tbody>
                              </tgroup>
                    </table>
   </section>
   <section>
                    <title>Relevant Resources Links</title>
                    <para>
                              Visit the <ulink url="http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/repeat.jsf?c=repeat">Repeat page</ulink> at RichFaces LiveDemo for examples of component usage and their sources.
                    </para>
          
			<para>
			<ulink url="http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/Cantusea4jrepeattoiteratethemenuItemstabsetc">Here</ulink> you can find information why you can't use <emphasis role="bold"><property>&lt;a4j:repeat&gt;</property> </emphasis> to iterate the menuItems, tabs and way to solve this problem.

			</para>
			
			</section>
</section>
