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Vojtech Knyttl commented on FREEMARKER-123:
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We often include templates that both set variables and produce text, eg:
definitions.ftl:
{code:java}
<#assign foo = ""/>
<#assign bar = ""/>
<#macro ...>
</#macro>
<#function ...>
</#function>
<html>
<head>
...
</head>
{code}
index.ftl
{code:java}
<#import header.ftl/>
...
{code}
In this particular case it could of course be avoided, but our codebase is much
more complex and avoiding it would make the code not so easy to work with.
> Trim output whitespace
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>
> Key: FREEMARKER-123
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-123
> Project: Apache Freemarker
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Vojtech Knyttl
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: Screenshot 2019-11-20 at 14.00.56.png
>
>
> We use a lot of recursively included files, which might have a lot of
> indentation. The result is, that we sometimes get even 30 empty lines before
> `<html>`.
> !Screenshot 2019-11-20 at 14.00.56.png!
> It would be great to allow dropping all whitespace before first
> non-whitespace chars.
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