Hi,
I started playing with microsling yesterday and found so far two
itches in the Javascript template approach used by microsling that I
would like to scatch:
1) Syntax highlighting for ESP: http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs/
lars/entry/esp_javascript_template_language_syntax
2) Making the Javascript objects used in ESP-templates like resource
and resource.item a little bit easier to handle by wrapping them in
ScriptableObjects. The ESP example could then be simplified to:
<%-- microsling ESP template example, store this as html.esp --%>
<html>
<body>
<p>This page is generated from an ESP template!</p>
<h1><%= resource.uri %></h1>
<%
for each (var p in resource.item.properties) {
%>
<p>
<%= p.name %>
=
<strong><%= p.string %></strong>
</p>
<%
}
%>
</body>
</html>
Other ways of accessing a property could be:
resource.item.properties.foo
resource.item.properties["foo"]
resource.item.properties[1]
and the same API could apply to children. The idea is to expose the
Resource (and the wrapped Node) as a JSON object that can be
processed easily.
regards,
Lars
