I think we can add the startElement and endElement later!
Not a difficult job :).
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually Simon you just gave me the perfect example
>
> Simon Kitching schrieb:
>
> We are not talking about doing away with any existing templates, right?
>>
>> No, the existing templates are not touched, what we have here is more or
> less an extension to java which adds multiline strings and string templating
> in a very generic way without colliding with the java syntax itself.
>
>
> AIUI we're just talking about replacing a whole bunch of calls to
>> responseWriter.startElement("span")
>> responseWriter.write("hello," + planetName);
>> responseWriter.endElement("span")
>> etc
>>
>
> Actually the new code would look like
>
> ... do something in java here
> /*TPL
> #outputop(responseWriter.write)
> <span> hello $planetName </span>
> TPL*/
>
> ... do again something in java here...
>
>
> It would not result in entirely the same code after the compile,
> but with the current state of affairs more or less in following code:
>
> responsewriter.write("<span> hello ");
> responsewriter.write(planetName);
> responsewriter.write(" </span>");
>
> I do not cover the startElement stopElement, and attribute etc.. apis
> because I wanted to be as generic as possible (so that it can be covered
> outside of jsf.
> Theoretically it would be possible in the long run to cover those as well
> (by simply parsing the code which has to be printed in a second step for tag
> constructs). For now I leave it that way.
>
>
> As I said in an earlier mail, I got the idea by groovy which has multiline
> strings and limited string templating, but I went for the comment syntax
> because I did not want to break existing java tooling.
> (Pretty much like the jboss guys did in their compiler, but on the xml side
> by using CDATA blocks to cover the java code)
>
>
> I hope that clears things a little bit up.
>
> Werner
>
>
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