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Adrian Crum commented on JEXL-177: ---------------------------------- Actually, in Freemarker your expression would look like this: {code} <package>${item!}</package> {code} http://freemarker.org/docs/dgui_template_exp.html#dgui_template_exp_missing_test > Unified expressions to be used in String literals in Jexl scripts > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JEXL-177 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-177 > Project: Commons JEXL > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 3.0 > Reporter: Dmitri Blinov > Priority: Minor > > Introduce new string literals to jexl script that allow unified expressions > to be used, string literals could use for example triple quoted (single or > double) syntax for delimiters, may include newlines and should not escape > single quotes > {code} > user = "Bob"; server = "Test"; s = """Hello ${user}, welcome to ${server}"""; > return s; > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)