On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote:
> o Why do you use <TMPL_xyz istead of <!-- TMPL_xyz -->?
> Did this prove to be easier for the web-designers?
Both are supported. I find the former easier to type but some people like
the latter. With filter you can easily support any tag syntax you want!
> o Why don't you allow a closing /TMPL_VAR?
It's not a block construct. But if you want it it's very easy to support
with filter.
> o What do you feel about XSLT?
It's not my kind of toy. As far as I can tell it's just another
code-in-the-template system. Sure, the code is written as XML but that
doesn't really change anything. People that can work in XSLT are
programmers in my book.
> o TMPL_INCLUDE documentation is unclear about well-formedness. In my
> Lisp/Scheme code, the included file must be well-formed w.r.t. TMPL_xyz
> opening/closing tags. I.e. you cannot have a /TMPL_IF in the included
> file whose matching TMPL_IF would be in the parent.
No, the contents of a TMPL_INCLUDE need not be well-formed. You can do:
<tmpl_loop foo>
<tmpl_include end.tmpl>
And in end.tmpl:
</tmpl_loop foo>
> o I deviated from your scoping rules and provide lexical scoping, like
> in programming languages. So within TMPL_LOOP one can access all
> variables defined outside. That solves Jacques Poulin's problem. As I
> said, I ought to write a paper.
That's what you get with the global_vars option. My implementation of
global_vars is really terrible internally, but it does work for most
cases.
Is the Lisp version of HTML::Template available somewhere? I'm a closet
Lisp fan myself (see Inline::Guile for proof) and I'd probably enjoy
reading the code. Lately I've been thinking about doing a Forth
version...
-sam
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