I would like to add a list of nodes to a template state.
Specifically, I have a set of language strings that *may* contain embedded
nodes. This is for creating multilingual sites.
The file format being parsed is of the format:
<lang id="en">
<s set="mystring">
<t id="title">This is an example title</t>
<t id="example">This is an example string with an embedded <mytitle /></t>
...
many more string definitions would go here
...
</s>
</lang>
The idea is that parsing this file using renderTemplate calls a splice function
that generates templates of the name "lang:en:mystring:example".
These templates should be saved in the template state and then be used during a
following renderTemplate that renders a page shell.
The page shell or subsequently called splices would contain nodes of the form:
<l mytitle="Hello">mystring:template</l> which would look up the current
language and return the appropriate template node, eg.
<lang:en:mystring:example mytitle="Hello"/>
which would return the previously defined template. I would introduce a few
optimisations, but that is the basic idea.
So in essence, I am writing a splice function that has the side effect of
generating new templates that are used later on.
I am abstracting the new template by using code like this (for the "t" tag):
ts <- getTS
stopRecursion
input <- getParamNode
let mynodes = getChildren input
putTS $ addTemplateFunction "lang:en:mystring:example" mynodes
The addTemplate function appears to be ideal for addTemplateFunction, except
that it takes an internal template instead of a list of nodes.
I notice that there is a toInternalTemplate function but it is not public and
it is not clear to me how the docType parameter works there in any case.
Is there a more straightforward way to do this?
Basically I am trying to define a large number of templates within one file
rather than using the default Heist approach of one template per file, which is
inefficient for defining language strings.
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