I'm not a very advanced user, but I would like to see one minor change. I would like to be able to include a closing slash, for example: <tmpl_var name=foo />
Just because jEdit's html mode gets confused when trying to identify beginning and ending tags. Matt On 04/06/2011 01:21 PM, Michael Peters wrote: > This email is an announcement of sorts for some work I've got planned > for HTML::Template. I'm greatly in debt to Sam Tregar for this module > and the use that I've gotten out it over the years. > > After talking with Sam, he's given me permission to try to further the > development of HTML::Template to give some needed features while > maintaining the spirit that it was originally written in. That is, to be > a fast, straight forward and easy to learn templating engine. To that > end, I've got the following goals: > > + Move HTML::Template development to github. My repo is located at: > https://github.com/mpeters/html-template > + Use default perltidy settings > + Use Dist::Zilla for release management > + Go through the current RT queue and do some fixes, updates and triage. > + Add a<tmpl_elsif> tag > + Add a "format" attribute with built-in and user defined formats: > <tmpl_var cost> > <tmpl_var cost format="currency"> > <tmpl_var cost format="number"> > + User defined escapes > + Add an encoding param to more easily handle UTF8/Unicode. > + Break out parsing of templates into HTML::Template::Parser so that > templates can be parsed and manipulated outside of rendering. And use > HTML::Template::Parser internally in HTML::Template. > > And for HTML::Template::Expr I want to do: > + Allow boolean "!" in expressions for things like: > <tmpl_if expr="foo&& !bar">...</tmpl_if> > + Allow "||" to work more like Perl's "||" when used in a<tmpl_var> : > <tmpl_var expr="foo || bar"> > > Other ideas I'm on the fence about: > + Like HTML::Template::Plugin::Dot allow methods to be called on > objects: > <tmpl_var start_date.mdy('-')> > + Add a<tmpl_set> tag. Could be useful for template driven behaviors > (combined with param() or query()) or when combined with > <tmpl_include>: > > Any questions? Comments? Verbal Abuse? Any offers of help? > > Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list Html-template-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
