Leon Messerschmidt wrote:
>
> > Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
> > >
> > > The point here is not how to escape but that the regular way to do this,
> > > i.e., pass your value thru a function, or write a macro that calls that
> > > function; they just polute the template and makes the whole thing
> dificult
> > > to read.
> > >
> > > The need is for a mechanism that can perform this transformations
> implicitly
> > > without having to call something everytime we type "${....}".
> > >
> >
> > What's the downside again for postprocessing the rendered stream? I
> > don't remember...
>
> If I have a template <text>$name</text> and context.put ("name","<>") the
> output stream looks like this
>
> <text><></text>
>
> How do I go from that to this
>
> <text><></text>
>
> without knowing what was original XML and what was inserted?
Yup, that's an issue. You would have to make a clueful post processor
that would not convert your tags.
But what if I want to insert :
<parent>
$xmlblob
</parent>
where
$xmlblob is "<child>William</child>"
Then the listener approach screws things up too, right?
Now,
<text>#escape("<>")</text>
is disliked for some reason. Don't understand why yet.
What about
#macro( node $tag $attr $text)
#if ($text.length() > 0)
<$tag $attr />
#else
<$tag $attr>#escape($text)</$tag>
#end
#end
so
#node( "text" "" "<>")
Not as readable, I guess, but does guarantee closed nodes, I guess :)
Just thinking out loud here.
geir
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