[antlr-interest] Another StringTemplate Engine

[Tiller, Michael (M.M.)]

Wow, seems like everywhere I look somebody is proposing a new string
template engine, e.g.

http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node5.html

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Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: matthew ford [mailto:Matthew.Ford at forward.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:14 PM
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Another StringTemplate Engine
> 
> I have also created a template engine based in StringTemplates
> WebStringTemplate (www.webstringtemplates.com)
> It differs from StringTemplates in that it defines a formal
> data interface definition file (HTML) which allows the web page design
and
> the server programming to be completely separated and comes with
> extensive documentation.
> It also includes the concept of object filters on the server side
modify
> how the strings are produced by the server for supply to the
> data interface.
> 
> I kept to the strict separation and aimed at keeping the web side of
>  the template engine as simple as possible (there are already too
> many languages out there to learn)
> 
> To over come the $100 red problem you mentioned and other
> formatting issues,  I recommed web page designers using my engine
> use javascript to do any UI type formatting.  The server provides the
> data strings (as specified by the data interface definition file) and
the
> web page displays it as it wants.
> 
> matthew
> P.S. V2 is under development which improves the visabliity of
> templates and lets you develope the web pages using just
> your favourate HTML editor, the data definition file
> and a webpage containing the processing applet.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Deren" <andrew at adersoftware.com>
> To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:27 AM
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Another StringTemplate Engine
> 
> 
> > Yes, it was mostly to make things easier. Originally I didn't have
some
> of
> > those operators (equals, lt, gt), but with time I just added them.
> > That was one reason I found antlr StringTemplate hard to use. It's
> strict
> > separation of content and UI made it hard at times. I'm used to
using CF
> > language, which is content/gui/logic all in one file. Not a good
idea,
> but
> > gets things done really easily and fast.
> > I just added few constructs that I thought would be necessary. In
some
> > instanced, you just need to put little bit of logic in your UI.
> > For example if you're displaying list of orders and want to flag
those
> that
> > have total less than $100 in red. You could add a property to your
> business
> > object, but that's not always desirable, especially if you didn't
author
> the
> > business object. But of course it could be argued the other way,
that if
> > this requires some attention and if you deiced to change $100 to
$200,
> it
> > would make more sense to have it in the object itself.
> > I've just know by experience (created 150,000 line cf back end
system)
> that
> > sometimes you do need things like that in your UI for simplicity.
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Terence Parr [mailto:parrt at cs.usfca.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:51 PM
> > To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Another StringTemplate Engine
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Seems interesting.  I take it the enforcing separation philosophy
was
> > not a prime consideration for your derivative because of the equals
> > operation you allow etc...?
> >
> > Ter
> >
> > On Aug 31, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Andrew Deren wrote:
> >
> > > I just wanted to announce that I wrote another string template
engine.
> > > I
> > > wanted to use antlr engine, but found syntax hard to understand.
> > > You can find more info about it at
> > > http://www.adersoftware.com/?page=templateEngine
> > > Basically it does what StringTemplate does, plus some more stuff
(and
> > > some
> > > less) and syntax is more like XML (actually like Cold Fusion if
anyone
> > > knows
> > > it).
> > > Originally I used antlr as lexer/parser, but ended writing my own
> > > mostly
> > > because I found some construct hard or cumbersome to do using
antlr.
> > > Currently it only works with .net 2.0, but I'm working on 1.1 port
and
> > > java
> > > version.
> > > Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but maybe someone will find
this
> > > useful, as I already used it for several of my projects.
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
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> > Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator, http://www.antlr.org
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