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• Loops (Score:2)

  by Ovid (2709)

  For it to be useful, I really think it needs loops.

  <table>
  [% FOR item IN items %]
    <tr><td>[% item.name %]</td><td>[% item.value %]</td>
  [% END %]
  </table>

  I work hard (usually) to ensure there is no logic in my templates, but I can't do without loops. And it needs to be easily upgradeable to Template::Toolkit.

  That being said, many people will be upset about the whitespace issues of the above. There are obvious ways of dealing with this for the general case (w
  • Re:Loops (Score:2)

    by bart (450) <bart.lateur@pandora.be> on 2009.12.08 5:54 (#71347) Journal

    And filters. I may not imagine the bad things that would happen if item.name and/or item.value contain text with substrings that are meaningful as HTML markup.

    Besides, for a template system I want to be able to insert text between every listed item, but not after the final item; just like join does in Perl, but then with a loop-ish instead of a functional syntax. (Just being able to test for the last iteration in the loop, would do the trick.)

    I don't remember the syntax TT2 uses for such a feature, but I'm pretty sure it can do it.

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    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Ovid (2709)

      Template Toolkit's syntax:

      [% item.name | html %]