Re: [htmltmpl] Whitespace (linefeed) suppression?

[Puneet K. <pk...@ei...>]

Keith Jackson wrote:

> During previous discussions on this the suggestion was used to use tidy
> in some way.  Obviously in HTML the whitespace is fairly harmless, but
> for an email template or using H::T for something other then HTML the
> whitespace makes a big difference.
> 
> So I throw my vote in for a flag to include or not include the LF with
> certain H::T tags.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 15:47, Mark Fuller wrote:
> 
>>If I have something like this for readability in the template:
>>
>>==============================
>><TMPL_IF NAME="ERRMSG">
>>
>>  <p>Error: <TMPL_VAR NAME=ERRMSG>
>>
>>  <TMPL_IF NAME="EMAIL_AVAILABLE">
>>
>>    (Forgot your password? <a href="">Reset and email it to yourself</a>.)
>>
>>  </TMPL_IF>
>>
>>  </p>
>>
>></TMPL_IF>
>>================================
>>


since we are voting, I would say 'no'. IMO, logic should belong in the 
script, not in the H-T markup, else it will become like php or 
coldfusion. The control tags (tmpl_if, tmpl_unless, etc.) provide basic 
programmatic control in the markup, but enough is enough, in my view. 
More often than not it is quite easy to rejig the code logic so the 
output comes out just the way you want it without having to resort to 
complicated control tags.

Besides, H-T is good as it does exactly what you are asking it to do... 
you are putting whitespace (for legibility) and then asking the program 
to strip it out (for bandwidth)... just run htmltidy or whatever approp. 
tool to strip the whitespace out before putting it up for serving. I 
actually find H-T output to be quite pretty and compact.

;-)