Odd, but I was struggling with this same problem at about the time you were
posting this note.
The manual is sort of offhand about the fact that the META directive can
only deal with "simple" data. However, you can pass in a filename, so you
could put your hash in an external doc. This is how I managed to get some
Javascript code into the header part of a page wrapper:
#in the template
[% META
title = 'Title'
page_id = "demo"
additional_js = "demo_js.tt2"
%]
#in the wrapper
[% IF ( template.additional_js );
myfilename = template.additional_js;
INSERT "site/$myfilename";
END;
%]
HTH
Bruce
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Szemeti
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 1997 7:23 AM
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Subject: [Templates] META failure to understand where I'm going wrong ...
OK, Im going worng somewhere ...
I have a 'wrapper' template called mian.tt2 that lays out the basic page ..
and sets the title and stuff ... under Apache::Template I have:
TT2Process main.tt2
TT2PreProcess config
and the wrapper I have [% PROCESS $template %] and in each template I have
somting like [% META title ='FooBar' %] so far so good.
Then .. I needed to add suuport for different locales ... I include an
appriate <lang>.tt2 filel that populates a hash called lang with local
specific key/val pairs ...
[% META title = lang.foobar.title %]
results in an unexpected token (lang) error ... I'm guessing that its all to
do with the conext that META is processed in .. using string literals seems
to work fine, trying anything that looks remotley like a variable seems to
result in a painful death.
clues welcome.
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