Re: [Bodington-developers] template conversion

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Alexis O'Connor wrote:
> Adam Marshall wrote:

[.. snipped ..]

> Matthew has some cunning ideas regarding converting tags of the 
> following form to new style:
> <building command=YYYYY variable=XXXXX>
> 
> ... so, I'll let him explain when he gets the chance(!)

Ok I'll take the bait....

At the moment to convert an old style call to a new one you change:

<building command=YYYYY variable=XXXXX>

to:

<call><target method="insert"><variable
name="facility"/></target>
<parameters>
     <variable name="request"/>
     <variable name="writer"/>
     <literal type="String">YYYYY</literal>
     <literal type="String">XXXXX</literal>
</parameters>
</call>

Which is much large and harder to read. Why don't we add support to the 
XML templates for the <building/> tag so that we can just change from:

<building command=YYYYY variable=XXXXX>

to:

<building command="YYYYY" variable="XXXXX"/>

This should ease the transition and should work in most cases. There are 
some places where it won't be as simple as adding a training slash and 
quotes.

<h1 color=<building command=color>>

Which can't be converted to an XML template without a litte more thought.

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