"Rolf Veen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
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> > I noticed that the extension used for Velocity template files is .vm
> > As I undestand this is done so to suggest the relationship between
> > Velocity and WebMacro wm -> vm. In my opinion stressing this relationship
> > becomes less and less important as Velocity drifts away from it's
> > origin. We could use another name, that is prettier and more
> > meaningful. I propose the extension .vt It's more meaninguful
> > = Velocity template and it's also prettier in my opion. It resembles
> > a well known equation kinematics 'distance equals velocity times time'.
> > Feel free to flame if you find this a stupid idea :-)
> >
> > Rafal
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> Just another idea. In our template engine we use standard extensions (*.htm,
> *.txt, *.xml) so that the engine can return the corresponding MIME type. The
> focus is on the base language (text / HTML / XML ...), not on the template
> language. That is very usefull, at least in our case: we can return a
> text/plain document for example. Mapping is done by putting templates in
> specific directories. This is not incompatible with a specific file
> extension; just put the right mapping in web.xml.
Or something like:
$template.setContentType("text/html");
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-Tom
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> I've been lurking at various Apache projects, and found Velocity. Our own
> template engine will be also open source (but be patient). For the curious,
> there is a very short introduction at
> http://www.helide.com/htm/g-intro2.htm. My opinion is that there are too
> many template engines, and many of them will not survive; that's wy i'm here
> (just lurking for now): we need a standard, and that certainly could emerge
> from the Apache community.
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> Regards.
> Rolf.
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Tom Vaughan <tom at vaughan dot to>
