Re: [htmltmpl] Whitespace (linefeed) suppression?

[Pete P. <pet...@cy...>]

petersm wrote:
> 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>
>>================================
>>
>>The resulting HTML has a lot of newlines.
>>
>>I'd like to ask if there should'nt be a feature in H::T that would let the
>>template author selectively disable "rendering" linefeeds as meaningful
>>(intended) whitespace? What I am suggesting is an attribute for TMPL_IF (and
>>other operations?) named "NOLF" that would cause H::T to discard linefeeds?
> 
> 
> Why should this matter (besides the bandwidth issue)? HTML ignores whitespace
> and other than looking at the output of a template every now and then to make
> sure that it is what you want, why do you care what the output looks like? 
> 
> I like the fact that it does exactly what you tell it to do. If you have
> whitespace it puts it in your loop. If you don't have whitespace it won't.
> Fairly intuitive to me. Anyone?


Ah, this reminds me of when I had to use ColdFusion, and the code was 
producing *hundreds* and *hundreds* of lines of whitespace (I think this 
was a v4.5 issue that was later somewhat 'fixed') Anyway, bandwidth 
became a huge issue, as the pages were pretty hefty to begin with.

It sounds like a feature that may be useful to some where every kbyte 
and second really matter.


Pete