[htmltmpl] Variable syntax suggestion

[Michael L. <mi...@go...>]

Sam, et all:

I would like to write a patch to allow single XHTML / HTML compliant
variable substitutions. Any chance something like this would get
implemented? I have used {%var_name%}, implemented as a filter for quite
some time.

Currently it is impossible to add vars inside HTML tags and validate the
HTML. Also you cannot edit templates in wysiwyg mode without pre/post
processing.

This doesn't really matter as much with the looping and logic constructs =
as
HTML comment style tags work okay here.

Thanks,
Mike


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By: Chris Burbridge - chrisburbridge
Variable syntax =A0=20
2000-05-21 02:03=20
I used HTML::Template for a project earlier this year, and I was very =
happy
with it. The only thing I would suggest is, some people might prefer a
different delimeter for the syntax, than the "<" + ">" ones -- the =
problem
for me is, the designer [I would be working with] cannot see the current
placeholders when the view it in a browser.=A0
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My suggestion is simply to have this be configurable--simply allow the
option of setting start and end delims. to a desired string. Then this =
would
work for everybody.=A0
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Thanks.

By: Andrey Melnikov - nimnul
RE: Variable syntax =A0=20
2001-03-04 08:34=20
Maybe it would be better to make special debug perl-script which will
replace all "<TMPL_VAR xxx>" to TMPL_VAR xxx and show the result in the
browser.=A0
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I could attach this script as a handler for *.tmpl and to view the =
templates
correctly din the browser:=A0
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http://localhost/xxx.tmpl

By: Michael Lloyd - mwlloyd
RE: Variable syntax =A0=20
2004-11-19 13:44=20
I have run into this problem for a number of different reasons, =
including
XHTML HTML validation, wysiwyg editing, and many other more site =
specific
ones.=A0
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I am using {%var_name%} and writing a regular expression, but I think =
this
would be a major improvement.=A0