Andrea Aime wrote:
> Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>> Hi Andrea; there are new "official" string functions in town - the
>> work Eclesia has been doing on SE1.1 has brought them to light. It
>> looks like this allows for some functions with a variable number of
>> parameters. So when you do boil this down to a single Expression we
>> may have a better function for you to use.
>
> I'll need to see some examples. Anyways, the current code is already
> parsing the mixed content
>
>> As for the meaning of the <Lable>....</Label> section I think we
>> would all like to the behave like a mini template; it output exactly
>> what is between the tags substituting <PropertyName> tags where
>> needed. Can you confirm for me that other expressions can be used
>> here - or is it just PropertyName?
> No no, whatever expression you want.
Good - thanks for the info.
> The only issue is that spaces are being eaten. Imho to make it a good
> mini template languages we'd have to preserve spaces instead.
Agreed; that sounds like a good move all around. Do you *exactly* have
to preserve whitespace or can we gobble up all \n\t characters as a
single ' '? ie. what is important here...
> As an alternative, I can roll in a function that behaves like a real
> template language, freemarker. I have an experiment in a geoserver
> community module that looks more or less like this:
>
> <ogc:Function name="freemarker">
> <ogc:Literal><![CDATA[<html><body>
> This is bridge <b>${FID.value}</b> whose name is <i>${NAME.value}</i>
> </body></html>]]></ogc:Literal>
> </ogc:Function>
That really does not look like a reusable style :-) But you are onto
something, the use of a CDATA section to preserve a String, could that
be used to capture whitespace of the literals?
Jody
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