I had a discussion with Leszek about whitespaces in cTemplate. He made a
proposal about solving the problem once and for all. Comments are welcome!
Leszek Gawron wrote:
Reinhard,
I hope you don't mind bringing this to public list. I'd like others to
comment on my proposal.
Reinhard Poetz wrote:
Leszek Gawron wrote:
Hello,
Reinhard Poetz wrote:
Hi,
I would need to have something similar to xsl:text in cTemplate.
What do you think, is it difficult (for me) to implement jx:text?
Could you give me some usecase?
Do you need your <jx:text/> not to resolve expressions like:
<jx:text>${this goes as it looks even without matching brace </jx:text>
It is fairly easy to create new instructions. I could do it for you
though if you gave me your requirements.
lg
It's about stripping of whitesapces:
<jx:forEach ...>
<xyz>
${abc.name}
</xyz>
</jx:forEach>
That leads to
<xyz>
name_1
</xyz>
<xyz>
name_2
</xyz>
What I'd need is
<xyz>name_1</xyz>
<xyz>name_2</xyz>
I know, using another formatting in the template, this can be worked
around, but sometimes this isn't readable anymore (who want's to
study lines of 200 characters).
Do you know what I mean?
Yes .. but isn't it just the opposite to xsl:text? xsl:text is about
preserving whitespace and not removeing it. Another question for you is:
how would you like this to be handled:
<jx:forEach ...>
<xyz>
${abc.name}
<nested-tag> ${abc.description} </nested-tag>
</xyz>
</jx:forEach>
should nested-tag also have whitespace stripped? If this functionality
should be inherited we could have something like:
<xyz jx:strip-whitespace="true">
${abc.name}
<nested-tag> ${abc.description} </nested-tag>
</xyz>
which would lead to:
<xyz jx:strip-whitespace="true">name_1<nested-tag>desc</nested-tag></xyz>
we could also introduce jx:strip-whitespace stack so you could override
your setting in deeper section of the document
<xyz jx:strip-whitespace="true">
${abc.name}
<nested-tag jx:strip-whitespace="false">
${abc.description} </nested-tag>
</xyz>
That would give you:
<xyz jx:strip-whitespace="true">name_1<nested-tag> desc
</nested-tag></xyz>
(this might be unreadable because my thunderbird tries to outsmart me:))
in general it could be: <jx:strip-space="true|false|inherit"> (where
inherit is something that equals to no jx-strip-space attr).
whitespace problem affects separate .jx files with macros - you get a
loooooot of whitespace imported into your document. We should come up
with some generic functionality about preserving/keeping whitespace.
I suppose <jx:import uri="view/macros.jx" jx:strip-whitespace="true"/>
could be of great use for macros only inclusions.
WDYT?
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