I would be very interested in a solution to this problem. From a code
layout point of view this would be an important feature. Consider:
<div>
"
#if ($somevar)
$somevar
#else
nothing here
#end
"
</div>
This nicely formatted code makes it easy to see what's going on but will
make the html render with spaces in it like so (if $somevar is false or
null):
' nothing here '
Now this is a silly example and in this case it would be much easier to
simply do this to eliminate the problem:
<div>
#if ($somevar)
"$somevar"
#else
"nothing here"
#end
</div>
but in more complex examples you'd either have a great amount of
duplicated HTML, which makes it bad to maintain and update, or you'd
have to make unreadable code (everything on one line with no white spaces).
I converted an old nasty taglibbed jsp into velocity and although I
cleaned up the html (removing 20+ unnecessary nested tables) the
filesize of the velocity version was actually slightly bigger than the
old version because of all the whitespace.
So... I would very much like velocity to perhaps remove whitespace
between a directive (i.e. a # statement) and any other code.
Paul.
Timothy Stone wrote:
List,
We noticed in #parse'ing an .vm file, excess whitespace, or linefeeds,
are appearing in our templates after merge.
For example, where a '+' indicates a line feed or carriage return:
[mystyles.vm]
+
#set( $foo = "Copyright (c)")
+
#set( $bar = "2006" )
+
[myemail.txt]
#parse("mystyles.vm")
+
Dear bloated warthog,
blah
+
blah
+
blah
+
Regards,
Man in Black
+
${foo} ${bar}
[The final output]
+
+
+
+
Dear bloated warthog,
blah
+
blah
+
blah
+
Regards,
Man in Black
+
Copyright (c) 2006
Can these extra lines be managed in some way?
Thanks,
Tim
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