IMHO, as the parser is working through the document it seems it would be relatively simple to tweak the substitutions being done. Caveat: I've never tried to follow the H:T code.
Drew
At 04:13 PM 2/11/03 -0500, Paulsen, Brian wrote:
Well, if we had people providing these filter functions, it still would be a simple config option:It might look something like this: my %opts = ( filter => [ HTML::Template::Filter::PreChomp, HTML::Template::FilterPostChomp ] ) $tt = Template->new( %opts ); Brian -----Original Message----- From: Drew Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:08 PM To: Paulsen, Brian Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [htmltmpl] Trimming whitespace I'm coming from the TT world, where this is just an option to new(). I get all kinds of useful options to make the results look prettier: my %opts = ( TRIM => 1, PRE_CHOMP => 1, POST_CHOMP => 1, ); $tt = Template->new(%opts); From http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/default/Manual/Config.html >PRE_CHOMP, POST_CHOMP > >Anything outside a directive tag is considered plain text and is >generally >passed through unaltered (but see the INTERPOLATE option). This includes >all whitespace and newlines characters surrounding directive tags. >Directives that don't generate any output will leave gaps in the output >document. That's what I want - a simple config option. If this adds a filter behind the scenes I don't care. No, it doesn't matter much to the resulting HTML. But nicely formatted & spaced HTML makes it easier for me when there's a problem and I'm trying to find it. Yes, I create my H:T object in a centralized place and could easily add a filter, but that's not the point. :-) Drew At 03:27 PM 2/11/03 -0500, Paulsen, Brian wrote: >I'm still at a loss why a simple filter function couldn't do this work. > >Perhaps what we need is people to contribute filter functions to do >these kinds of things. > >Brian > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jody Biggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:19 PM >To: simran; Jay 'Whip' Grizzard >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [htmltmpl] Trimming whitespace > > >hear hear! > >I've got some _extremely_ ugly templates that are outputting CSV or tab >delimited data, as they loop through data cells in each row, and have >several conditions within each row and cell... > >perhaps it would be reasonable to consider adding an option for >stripping white space out of lines which contain nothing but an >HTML::Template tag? > > - j > >--- simran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 05:27, Jay 'Whip' Grizzard wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:54:59PM -0500, Sam Tregar wrote: > > > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to trim the extra whitespace\newlines from the > > final output? > > > > > I didn't notice anything in the docs so I thought I'd ask > > > > > here. > > > > > > > > HTML::Clean works for some people. In general I don't let it > > bother me. > > > > It's just a few extra bytes and the browser certainly doesn't > > care. > > > > > > Problem is, sometimes the browser -does- care. There's not a > > difference > > > between "one character of whitespace" and "many characters of > > whitespace", but > > > there is a difference between those and "zero characters of > > whitespace". > > > > Agree. Also, HTML::Template is i think used in quite a wide range of > > applications - and its not uncommon (at least at my workplace) to > > encounter this templating mechanism to produce output for other > > applications (eg, XML, CSV, TXT, ...) and sometimes those > > applications do care about the number of whitespaces. > > > > > > > > > > > Me personally, I use an HTML::Template::Extension module to do it. > > Heck, > > > said module even appears to be appended to this email. Usage: use > > PACKTAGS > > > as an extension, and close some of your tags with " #>" (note the > > space) > > > instead of >. Any tags closed that way will cut off output until > > the next > > > tag in the template. (This could be trivially adjusted to just > > remove > > > whitespace, as well .. adjust _pack_tags in the obvious way). > > > > > > Incidentally, this script solves one of the two complaints I've > > > had > > about > > > HTML::Template. The other complaint? There isn't a way to > > incrementally > > > render loops, since you have to give it the entire contents of the > > loop at > > > once. It seems silly to hold several thousand iterations of data > > > in > > memory, > > > when one could just output an iteration at a time... > > > > > > Anyhoo. Enjoy.
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