Robert Koberg wrote:
Will Glass-Husain wrote:
Ah, hi Jonathan how are you?
I think we discussed this issue extensively last time Jonathan was on the
last a couple of years ago. Perhaps I might suggest the rest of the
Velocity community just refuse to be baited and stick to the topic at
hand?
(basically, ignore the temptation to have the last word).
As I remember, the topic was how new community members can help out.
Ooops sorry :)
reading backwards
BTW, I have checked out quite a few templating languages. WRT java,
Velocity is the only one that plays nicely with XML.
I've heard this before. I think you must mean that FreeMarker's syntax
-- the use of <#...> as delimiters -- confuses XML-oriented editors.
Because, of course, generally, the claim is not valid: there's no
general need for a template to be well formed in its output format. For
example, it would be surprising if a raw template used to generate Java
code was itself compilable java.If you're generating XML, the key thing
is that the output be well formed XML and a lots of people use it for that.
But, anyway, FYI that was just addressed. You can now use an alternative
syntax where instead of:
<#assign x = 3>
you write
[#assign x=3]
etcetera. So it's now just as XML-friendly as Velocity is. Though, with
the difference that FM is a powerful XML transformation tool and a
viable replacement for XSLT.
Jonathan Revusky
--
lead developer, FreeMarker project http://freemarker.org
Velocity-FreeMarker comparison page: http://freemarker.org/fmVsVel.html
best,
-Rob
Cheers,
WILL
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