On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 11:31 +0200, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote: ... > Thorsten, > see attached a patch for cocoon-stringtemplate and cocoon-sample that > should fix your issue about $if$ with StringTemplateTransformer. > > In fact, I've checked that problems arise with transformer only, while > generator is safe in this respect; this happens because generator let ST > handle the whole file, while transformer doesn't. Transformer's approach > makes it able, however, to parse ST expressions in XML attributes as well. > > If you want to try my patch, just apply it to fresh C3 sources, do an > "mvn clean install" of cocoon-stringtemplate and afterwards launch "mvn > jetty:run" under cocoon-sample: you will be able to watch results at > http://localhost:8888/string-template/generator and > http://localhost:8888/string-template/transformer. > > I did not commit this yet because, as you can see from > StringTemplateTransformer's source, my patch is limited to "$if$" case, > and only when the whole $if$ evaluates to CDATA from XML point of view: > i.e. this work > > <root> > <a alt="$parameter$" href="$if(!booleanParameter)$ > expression evaluated to true > $else$ > expression evaluated to false > $endif$">link</a> > </root> > > while this does not: > > <root> > $if(!booleanParameter)$ > <element>expression evaluated to true</element> > $else$ > <element>expression evaluated to false</element> > $endif$ > </root>
I patched only the transformer, here my observation: - the attribute approach works fine. - the second one cuts of element generation from that point on. it is a start. ;) salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> codeBusters S.L. - web based systems <consulting, training and solutions> http://www.codebusters.es/
