Hi Graham,
I'm currently traveling to TSSJS in Las Vegas and will be there until
next Monday. The initial quick 'pointer' that I can give you is that you
should be able to use Velocity templates directly in elements and output
its content through the outputstream or the print statement of the element.
Two things would be interesting to do I think:
* provide the instance of the current element to the Velocity template
so that the data can be accessed from there, possibly you can also
provide it with a map for the inputs and a map for the parameters (maybe
even merge these together). IIRC that would then make data access very
similar to how people use Velocity usually
* figure out a way to render embedded elements inside a Velocity
template. The way how this currently works in RIFE is that the web
engine checks for ELEMENT:id value tags and processes them using the
processEmbeddedElement method. I don't know enough about Velocity, but
this would definitely have to be integrated somehow, otherwise
portlet-like or widget components will not be available.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Best regards,
Geert
Graham O'Regan wrote:
Not quite, we discussed using actual velocity templates rather than
"inspired" syntax. As Geert has mentioned, many people are put off by
the current syntax because it is unlike any other templating system. I
reckon if people could use a templating mechanism that they are used to
Rife would gain much greater adoption.
You can see what was discussed here;
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39529
In my situation I *have* to work with designers, I'd like to move to
Rife, but I can't inflict that decision on the rest of the team. It
should be largely transparent to them.
Emmanuel Okyere wrote:
I'm not sure it talked about "using velocity for templates"; rife
gives you a choice on the template syntax to use, which all compiles
back to the same thing
here's the thread you are looking for from the mailing list:
http://lists.uwyn.com/pipermail/rife-users/2006-February/019612.html
cheers,
eokyere
On 3/22/06, Graham O'Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Geert: Just picking up from the TSS thread about using velocity for
templates (I use the name analogboy on TSS). Can you give me a few
pointers on where to start with that?
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