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Kevin Menard commented on TAPESTRY-2016:
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Well, a parse error should be able to be handled in reasonable way across any 
sort of pattern.  Or are you suggesting a deeper problem with the contributed 
pattern (e.g., memory leak)?

My guess is that this isn't something that would likely be done often in an 
application, but rather provided by library authors.  Still potentially 
problematic, but it would be limited in scope and could lead to some nicer 
syntax in the template.

> Make it simple to add new parser patterns
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TAPESTRY-2016
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAPESTRY-2016
>             Project: Tapestry
>          Issue Type: Wish
>    Affects Versions: 5.0.8
>            Reporter: Kevin Menard
>             Fix For: 5.1
>
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> I realize that this is a wish item, but I think it could add a lot of power 
> to Tapestry.  Right now, expansions are awesome to use, but at the same time 
> they're still quite limited.  Being able to contribute new expansion patterns 
> could lead to some really interesting results.
> At the simplest level, I could just use something other than ${blah}.  For 
> example, my first T5 app was basically a port from a Django app.  Django uses 
> {{blah}} for its form of expansions.  If I could have contributed that as a 
> pattern the migration would have gone a lot easier.
> Things could get increasingly more sophisticated, however.  Looking at Django 
> again, they have something called "filters" that seem quite similar to T5's 
> mixins.  What's interesting is that filters can be chained together in an 
> expansion.  As an example:
> {{ object.date|date:"F j, Y" }}
> That takes a date from some object and pipes it through the date filter, 
> which is configured with the text following the colon.
> You could string these arbitrarily long.  Maybe you have one filter to make 
> clickable URLs out of any URLs in a given text section and then pipe it into 
> another that truncates the total amount of text.
> I could see value in adding yet another expansion for outputting raw values 
> rather than using a component in the template to do so.
> Anyway, lots of things I'd like to see enhanced with the template processor 
> in general.  I think the path of least resistance would be to make it 
> possible for someone to easily make a contribution and if something becomes 
> popular enough, look at adding it to Tapestry proper.

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