Allow definition of macro's within parsed files
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Key: VELOCITY-604
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-604
Project: Velocity
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Engine
Affects Versions: 1.5, 1.4
Reporter: Paul Curren
Your documentation at
http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.5/user-guide.html#velocimacro_miscellany
has the following snippet -
{panel}
h1. Velocimacro Trivia
Currently, Velocimacros must be defined before they are first used in a
template. This means that your #macro() declarations should come before using
the Velocimacros.
This is important to remember if you try to #parse() a template containing
inline #macro() directives. Because the #parse() happens at runtime, and the
parser decides if a VM-looking element in the template is a VM at parsetime,
#parse()-ing a set of VM declarations won't work as expected. To get around
this, simply use the velocimacro.library facility to have Velocity load your
VMs at startup.
{panel}
Is this likely to change in any forthcoming versions?
The use case is theme development for Confluence. It would be nice to be able
to share some common macro definitions between a number of templates within a
theme (i.e. not inlining). And using the _velocimacro.library_ property isn't
really an option because themes are dynamically loaded or unloaded.
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