Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 12:53:28 PM, Denis Bredelet wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Le 25 mars 2018 à 17:52, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> a écrit : > > In FM3 there's a configuration (ParsingConfiguration to be precise) > setting called "templateLanguage" (of type TemplateLanguage). This is > kind of a dummy ATM, but will be important in supporting multiple > template languages in FM3. > ... > > So, are you saying this solution is the most extensible while remaining > reasonably simple?
Yes, basically. I don't try to make a meta-template-engine out of FreeMarker. I want to keep it focused (though, if some semantical tweak is very easy to add as a Configuration setting, maybe we will allow that). However, it's the peculiarity of template languages that syntax, especially the top-level syntax (which is the syntax that separates static text from the dynamic parts) matters a lot. As of a highly configurable syntax, where you specify the characters sequences that start the "tags" and such, this architecture doesn't exclude that (because a custom TemplateLanguage can have many settings), but I think it's better to push a few "official" variations instead. It also helps in tooling, as syntax highlight definition formats are often very inflexible, you can't have placeholders in them. Instead, you need one separate such file per permutation... but that's doable if you know what the permutations are, and what the associated file extension is. > Thanks, > -- Denis. -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
