Re: [htmltmpl] extra whitespace

[Alex T. <al...@ac...>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:30:16 -0700 (GMT-07:00), Mark A. Fuller wrote
> I raised this issue a year or two ago and it wasn't well-received. 

Hi Mark,

   I completely agree that the filter option is an excellent feature, but I'm
not certain it is the right feature to use for stripping linefeeds. I am
dealing with the formatting of a lot of plain text in <pre> and <p> tags. In
most cases, there are linefeeds inbetween those tags that I don't want to
remove. While I *could* write code to handle that, that may not be the best
approach...
   I havn't looked into the H:T code too much, but I would imagine its doing
some sort of tokenizing of the template before switching out the TMPL tags.
Why go through the trouble of re-tokenizing the data in a filter to isolate
<p> and <pre> from getting stripped if its an option that could be more easily
added to H:T?
   I think the additional whitespace is also unexpected behavior. If I write:

<TMPL_IF QUANTITY>
<TMPL_VAR AMOUNT>
<TMPL_ELSE>
None
</TMPL_IF>

the output I expect is:

"None"

not:

"


None

"

Be flexible in what you accept and rigid in what you produce.

Alex