Insufficient documentation for compress:js

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There is insufficient documentation for compress:js.  I'm trying to determine 
if it will meet the needs of my project.

The most detailed mention of compress:js that I can find within this project is 
as follows:

<compress:js enabled="true" yuiJsLineBreak="80" 
yuiJsPreserveAllSemiColons="true"></compress:js>

But how do I specify source files?  Can I specify multiple source files?  Or 
does it (only) work with inline Javascript?

I am impressed with how active this project is but until I get answers to the 
above questions I cannot use it in my work.  On the other hand, for the time 
being I am using another project, though it is much less active than yours.  
And this is the documented interface for compressing multiple js files:

<pack:script>
<src>/js/myJavaScriptFile.js</src>
<src>/js/mySecondJavaScriptFile.js</src>
</pack:script>

This is more or less the type of interface within the JSP that I'd like to be 
able to use.  Problem is, this other project does not rely on YuiCompressor, 
and therefore fails on some regular expression literals.  

So I'd much prefer to use htmlcompressor since it relies on yuicompressor.  But 
first I need to better understand if/how to combine multiple javascript files 
from within the JSP.  And I think any explanation you can provide me, might be 
good documentation for your home page as well.

Thanks!!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jemptyme...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2011 at 3:00

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<compress:js> can be used only for inline javascript (it sends enclosed content 
directly to yui compressor bypassing html compressor, making it a bit faster):

<script>
    <compress:js>
        alert("hello"); //comment will be removed
    </compress:js>
</script>

There are probably other tools for combining js files, I don't think I should 
include it into the project...

Original comment by serg472@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2011 at 6:58

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Original comment by serg472@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2011 at 8:14

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