See the Wiki on this issue:
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-velocity/VelocityWhitespaceGobbling
Please add your opinion (well thought out) or vote for one of the
presented approaches.
Cheers,
Christoph
Paul Loy wrote:
> 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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