Re: [htmltmpl] Whitespace (linefeed) suppression?

[Mark F. <mar...@ea...>]

From: "Puneet Kishor" <pk...@ei...>
>  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.

It seems like the problem (not a problem, but shortcoming?) is that the use
of H::T tags leave residue linefeeds. The tags are removed, but not the
linefeeds which were used *only* to enhance the legibility of why the tags
were used.

I agree with you. I don't want to see more logic tags. But, I don't think
this kind of attribute regarding the whitespace used with H::T tags is that
kind of logic. It's just an attribute of the existing tags regarding the
whitespace that does or doesn't belong to them.

> 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)...

I just don't see it quite that way. I'm authoring a template and artifacts
of that authoring are treated as HTML rather than template information. What
you (and others) have said is that, if I don't want it to do this, then
don't put whitespace in the template. My argument is that the result is an
illegible template.

Something's missing. I don't think post-processing the output is really the
answer when I could just say "NOLF" while authoring.

Mark