The functionality seem useful, but I don't think that it should be
implemented as an attribute. An attribute template language would be
cool, but, for JXTG, I think that all instructions should be elements.
Mixing element and attribute instructions makes the template language
confusing IMO.
From architectural stand point I would prefer letting the strip
whitespace element just work on its immediate children. Striping
whitespace recursively means that we need to make the Template
architecture more complicated and less reusable, I'm not convinced that
it would be worthwhile.
/Daniel
Reinhard Poetz wrote:
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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