Re: Proposal: XSP attribute interpolation

[Jörg Walter]

Am Wednesday, 09. July 2003 09:20, schrieb Matt Sergeant:
> At the moment I often end up typing very verbose XSP pages to get
> attributes in elements containing expressions. Here's an example from
> some recent code:
>
>      if (my $n = $page->previous_page) {
>          <pagenav previous="1">
>              <xsp:attribute
>                  name="page"><xsp:expr>$n</xsp:expr></xsp:attribute>
>              &lt;&lt;
>          </pagenav>
>      }
>
> I think we should take a leaf out of XSLT's book and allow
> interpolation in attributes, so that this would work:
>
>      if (my $n = $page->previous_page) {
>          <pagenav previous="1" page="{$n}">&lt;&lt;</pagenav>
>      }
>
> Should be fairly simple to do. Thoughts?

Yes please! I've been longing for that for quite some time now. So we scrap 
that Cocoon compatibility now? Fine by me... :-)
Attribute value templates will be made exactly as in XSLT, I assume? 
(regarding quoting of {}'s, multiple {...}'s in one attribute and the like)

-- 
CU
   Joerg