Sunday, October 20, 2002, 4:15:22 AM, Derick Fernando wrote:
> Acutally yes, Granted my templates are simple, I only use logic between
> tags:
>
> Velocity:
> #foreach( $bozo in $bozos )
> <td>$bozo.name</td>
> #end
(Even in this case, it is not valid XHTML. <tr> does not allow text
around <td>s.)
> Freemarker:
> <foreach bozo in bozos>
> <td>${bozo.name}<td>
> </foreach>
>
> Simple reader class removes #lines and validates templates recursively (they
> are xml).
Aha. So your templates are *not* valid XHTML-s, but you preprocess
them before validation. You can do exactly the same with FreeMarker
templates.
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Daniel
> Derick.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Dekany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Velocity Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 5:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Freemarker Syntax (was: a lot of junk)
>> Sunday, October 20, 2002, 12:20:08 AM, Derick Fernando wrote:
>>
>> > Ewww, that is horrible, there goes validation, and readability. This
> crap is
>> > what all the fuss is about? I wouldn't use it with any of my XML or
> HTML.
>> > #set for example stands out against any other markup.
>> >
>> > Derick.
>>
>> Man... I hope you write these totally stupid things, because you are
>> *very* angry. You can't tell it seriously, that you look at that 10
>> lines of FreeMarker, and you know that FM is a "crap". Also, "there
>> goes validation"... you used to validate your *templates* against some
>> DTD??? Don't answer...
>>
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Daniel Dekany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: "Velocity Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 12:15 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Freemarker Syntax (was: a lot of junk)
>>
>>
>> >> Saturday, October 19, 2002, 8:28:46 PM, Jeff Schnitzer wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On 10/19/02 9:43 AM, "Daniel Dekany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> <if foo>
>> >> >> a
>> >> >> <elseif bar>
>> >> >> b
>> >> >> <elseif baaz>
>> >> >> c
>> >> >> <else>
>> >> >> d
>> >> >> </if>
>> >> >
>> >> > Ugh. This is probably the #2 reason I will avoid freemarker:
>> >> > It looks waaay too much like the surrounding XML-ish content.
>> >>
>> >> Well, I guess the original intent was that the designer feels that he
>> >> just works with an extended HTML... so, it intentionally looks like
>> >> the surrounding XML or HTML.
>> >>
>> >> > The worst of it is not when you are filling in big textual
>> >> > areas of XML elements, but attributes. JSTL has the same
>> >> > awful problem.
>> >> >
>> >> > <table>
>> >> > <tr>
>> >> > <td class="<if foo>a<elseif bar>b<else>c</if>">
>> >> > </td>
>> >> > </tr>
>> >> > </table>
>> >> >
>> >> > That just creeps me out, and XML compliance is out the window.
>> >>
>> >> XML compliance? If you say that you want the *template* to be
>> >> well-formed XML, them it is out the window. If you want produce XML
>> >> with FreeMarker templates, then that's not a problem.
>> >>
>> >> What would be a syntax what you would prefer? (How would your example
>> >> looks with that syntax?)
>> >>
>> >>
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