[mantisbt-dev] MantisBT plugins manipulating templates with PHPTAL?

[David H. <hic...@op...>]

Hi Kornel,

I noticed that the PHPTAL website makes mention of upcoming support for
XPath functionality within PHPTAL prefilters. Could this perhaps be
useful for MantisBT plugins to manipulate the template DOM before they
are rendered?

What I am envisaging is that plugins respond to an event that triggers
prior to the template being rendered. The plugins could use XPath to
manipulate the page in any way they see fit (removing sections,
replacing sections, inserting sections, etc). This seems to be a method
that would provide maximum flexibility to plugins to do whatever they
want to the output pages without the need for hardcoded hooks at
designated points in the output HTML.

Regards,

David