Jonathan Revusky wrote:
I've heard this before. I think you must mean that FreeMarker's syntax
-- the use of <#...> as delimiters -- confuses XML-oriented editors.
It does not confuse them. It is just wrong for XML. Or are you saying
freemarker understands things it was not specified to handle?
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.
Well, I use Velocity in content chunks that are transformed by XSL to
whatever end result. I need the source to be well-formed.
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]
OK. I guess I would trust velocity at this point.
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.
Is freemarker a standard (sorry, I know the answer :)? Does freemarker
have as many/more implementations as there are XSLT processors? I highly
doubt freemarker has run into the cases that the more established XSL
processors have.
-Rob
Jonathan Revusky
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