WebMacro is not HTML specific. The current version has a parser bug
that inserts some unnecessary newlines--irrelevant in HTML and XML,
but a problem with other formats. Once that's fixed, I don't
see why you couldn't use it with other formats.
I might have to extend the syntax slightly to allow the use of delimiters
other than { and } in languages where those characters are meaningful.
Aside from that minor change, why not?
WebMacro is a macro processing system designed to extract properties from
Java objects and insert them into a text. It really doesn't care what the
underlying text is. Word is binary, but RTF and PDF are just text.
Justin
WebMacro Servlet Framework
http://webmacro.org
Quoting Carlos Amengual ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Cezar Totth write:
> >
> > Disagree. you can use templates to generate many types of textual
> > content, without changes in Java classes:
> > rich text format, postscript, TAB-delimited-tables (for spreadsheet
> > import), SQL "insert" or "update" content, and even XML.
> >
> > This, in most cases, without the intervention of the guy (girl) who
> > wrote the .java source.
> >
> > Template engines are in fact data extraction tools from living java
> > apps, using introspection or not, more or less optimized.
> > The resulted documents can be any external representation of that
> > data, not only .html
>
> Please read my post. Even if you had a single template tool that allowed
> to deal transparently with all text formats (not true), you still have
> important non-text formats missing.
>
> How are you supposed to write a webmacro-like script in a PDF, Word, or
> PS document ?
>
> Carlos
>
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