Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Leszek Gawron wrote:
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what do you think about removing the old syntax in 2.2?
<d p="foo">
<content b="${1+2}"/>
</d>
For me it is counter-intuitive and leads to accidental mistakes (not so easy to find by newbies).
-1 on removing this syntax, as it prevents writing things such as the CForms template language using JXTG (or CTemplate).
Seem like a strong enough reason.
Yes ;-)
Or if you find this counter-intuitive, maybe we can introduce the concept of "element interceptor" which is a macro that gets called when a particular element is encountered. This makes it explicit that some elements will become macro calls.
<jx:intercept element="ft:widget">
<!-- macro body -->
</jx:intercept>
WDYT about requiring the intercepted elements to lie whithin a certain name space? I.e. somthing like:
<jx:intercept ns="http://..../FormsTransformer/1.0";> <!-- macro bodies for forms --> </jx:intercept>
By requiring the macros to lie within predifined namespaces it will be easier to see what is macros and what is not.We can also make it an error to use elements whithin an intercepted name space that doesn't have a macro definition.
Mmmh... I've been thinking also of a "wildcard interceptor", e.g. <jx:intercept element="ns:*"> either to raise an error or to provide some generalized handling of a namespace, or at least those elements in that namespace that aren't explicitely intercepted.
Also, consider this:
<jx:intercept element="html:form"> <!-- same macro as ft:form-template --> </jx:intercept>
<jx:intercept element="html:input"> <!-- same macro as ft:widget --> </jx:intercept>
Now I can turn a raw HTML page into a CForms template by just adding <jx:import uri="..../html-forms.jx"/> at the top of the file. And I certainly don't want to intercept the whole html namespace!
And it makes it possible to have schemes for the different name spaces and to make tool support possible.
Can you elaborate on "tools support"? As long as the macro is defined in some way, either on a per-element or on a per-namespace basis, I don't see a real difference.
Sylvain
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