FYI, Terence Parr (the StringTemplate & ANTLR author) just sent this to
me. Thought the list would find this interesting....
Tony
-------- Original Message --------
From: Terence Parr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [RT] StringTemplate: The answer to our templating needs?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:32:10 -0800
Please do, Tony. :)
I'm very pleased you liked my article. I strive to write stuff that
resonates with practicing coders while staying fairly rigorous. :)
ST is incredibly simple on the outside (the implementation is a bit
involved of course), which is the way it should be. There are
essentially 4 operations of interest: ref attribute, ref another
template (possibly recursively), conditional inclusion, apply template
to attribute. That is sufficient power to generate essentially any
page. :)
Ter
On Nov 4, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Tony Collen wrote:
Terence Parr wrote:
Hi Tony,
Thanks for mentioned StringTemplate to the cocoon folks. I believe
somebody has mentioned that previously. Anyhoo, naturally you will
have my support if cocoon decides to use it. ANTLR / StringTemplate
are my full time job as a prof (well, when I'm not torturing
students) and I have been supporting ANTLR for 15 years. :) Have no
fear that I will be around to support StringTemplate.
As for xml-izing, it's a simple matter of hooking an XML parser on
the back end; sax / dom stuff. For example, in the following article
I generate xml, which you could suck in via xerces or whatever to get
a real tree back. ST is a tiny little ~100k jar that is just a
component / tool for people to hook into their existing systems. :)
Most users will only see/use 2 Java classes ever.
http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=65
Wow! thanks for the reply! Do you mind if i forward this to the
cocoon-dev list?
Tony
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