But if $c1 is not in the context, you cannot get the following result
using Velocity no matter the Velocity code.
$c1{something}
Using your idea:
${c1}{something} -> ${c1}{something}
Barbara Baughman
X2157
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Dimitrios Kolovos wrote:
> You can always use the formal way: ${c1}{something} to make it work.
>
> Dimitrios
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barbara Baughman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Velocity Users List" <velocity-user@jakarta.apache.org>;
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> Subject: Re: help - text within { } is not rendered by the engine
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> >I can replicate this behavior, and it looks like a bug.
> >
> > If you have a "$" followed by letters (something in the context or not
> > in the context), followed by a {, whatever follows the { is removed
> > until it gets to whitespace.
> >
> > So $c1{something} -> $c1{
> > $c1{something -> $c1{
> > $c1{something} More text -> $c1{ More text
> > $c1{something More text -> $c1{ More text
> >
> > If $c1 is in the Velocity context with a value "Hello", then it is
> > $c1{something} ->Hello{
> > $c1{something ->Hello{
> > $c1{something More text ->Hello{ More text
> >
> > Not good behavior for a templating language.
> >
> > Barbara Baughman
> > X2157
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Ricardo wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,I decided to post this question one more time in case this time
> >> someone has an answer to this problem. I am using velocity 1.4. I am
> >> having problems when rendering text that is enclosed within { }. Here's
> >> my velocity template:Hello $name! Welcome to
> >> Velocity!$c1{name}$c2{phone}Here's the output I get:Hello John! Welcome
> >> to Velocity!$c1{$c2{$name is a velocity reference. $c1 and $c2 are not
> >> velocity references. So, what I was expecting to get in the generated
> >> document is the following:Hello John! Welcome to
> >> Velocity!$c1{name}$c2{phone}As shown above, I am not expecting velocity
> >> to make any changes to the $c1 and $c2 lines. However, the engine is
> >> removing the text after the '{' character. Any ideas on what is wrong
> >> with my template? Thanks.
> >>
> >>
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