On Dec 24 Peter Scott wrote:
[Apologies if this is no longer relevant; I've only got your mail this
morning.]
> This is arguably not a HTML::Template question but since not many
> people besides HTML::Template users will have encountered this
> situation I will ask here.
Sounds like an HTML::Template question to me!
> I have a lot of template code like
>
> <OPTION <TMPL_IF NAME=foo>SELECTED</TMPL_IF>>Foo</OPTION>
>
> (DreamWeaver) does not like this syntax, and persists in changing it
>
> I can see two choices, equally unpleasant:
>
> (1) Get customer to use another HTML editor. Only choice appears to
> be emacs/vi. Customer will detest this option.
>
> (2) Have my application output the whole <OPTION> tag via a <TMPL_VAR>
> instead of just the SELECTED attribute.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this situation and found a third solution?
Yup. I use 'Vim' which (being a souped-up 'Vi') obviously does permit
typing nested tags but which highlights them as an error. My
work-around is to use something else as the brackets on such
HTML::Template tags. I like the double-angled brackets found in
Latin-1, since they don't normally appear elsewhere in HTML:
<OPTION «TMPL_IF NAME=foo»SELECTED«/TMPL_IF»>Foo</OPTION>
Then you just need to write a simple filter to pass to HTML::Template
which globally replaces whichever symbols you chose with the standard
less- and greater-than signs:
sub FixUpBrackets
{
my ($template) = @_;
$$template =~ tr/«»/<>/;
}
my $page = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'feedback.tmpl',
filter => \&FixUpBrackets);
Smylers
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