Generating pure javascript/css files using JSF 1.2/Facelets

I need to generate a pure JavaScript file or pure css file dynamically using JSF 1.2/Facelets. When I mean 'pure' I mean without any markup like xml, html open/close tags.

Is this possible? If so what settings do I need to use for the facelets output mechanism.

To give you a bit of history, I am trying to use the TinyMCE editor in my jsf application and to configure the list of images, it is supplied with a file name. The file is read and parsed on the client side and need to be just javascript and nothing else.

Solution

If memory serves, JSF 1.2 Facelets mandate producing XHTML. I imagine it is technically possible to do what you want even if you might have to resort to transforming the resultant XML (e.g. using XSLT) in a servlet Filter.

It would be significantly easier to do using a JSP in the same application:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/javascript; charset=ISO-8859-1"
                                                 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="f"  uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="h"  uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"%>
<f:view>
   var foo = '<h:outputText value="#{bar.baz}" escape="false" />';
</f:view>