In that case, the documentation is wrong. Leading whitespace is only trimmed from in front of a #set directive that has nothing after it. I'm not aware of any other case where leading whitespace is trimmed.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > All, > > The User Guide says that "Velocity's behavior is to gobble-up excess > whitespace" and offers this example: > > Velocity's behaviour is to gobble up excess whitespace. The preceding > directive can be written as: > > " > Send me > #set( $foo = ["$10 and ","a pie"] ) > #foreach( $a in $foo ) > $a > #end > please. > > or as > > Send me > #set($foo = ["$10 and ","a pie"]) > #foreach ($a in $foo )$a > #end please. > > In each case the output will be the same. > " > > I'm not observing this behavior. In my templates, the trailing > whitespace after a directive on a line (usually just a newline) appears > to be trimmed, but leading whitespace is preserved. So, the output from > the second example looks like this: > > Send me > $10 and > a pie > please. > > (note the leading whitespace before "$10 and", etc. which you may not be > able to see if you are viewing this message in HTML mode). > > Am I missing some kind of configuration parameter? I don't appear to > have anything in my configuration that has anything to do with whitespace. > > Is the documentation wrong? Or am I just mis-reading it? > > I know the issue of whitespace comes-up a lot, and I'm sorry to add to > the never-ending discussion. > > Thanks, > -chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
