[stringtemplate-interest] Setting variables in templates?

[Brain, Jim]

I *think* you cannot, but I thought I'd at least show my example, as there might be a more elegant way to express this:

import org.antlr.stringtemplate.*;
public class STTest {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
            StringTemplateGroup stg = new StringTemplateGroup("Source");
            stg.defineTemplate("reader","$if(name)$$Parser(node={get(\"$XMLName$\").getText()})$$else$$Parser(node={get(\"$XMLName$\").getAttribute()})$$endif$");
            stg.defineTemplate("Parser","$parser$");
            StringTemplateGroup stg2 = new StringTemplateGroup("Class");
            stg2.setSuperGroup(stg);
            StringTemplate st = stg2.defineTemplate("prop","$reader(parser={eval($node$)})$");
            st.setAttribute("name","fName");
            st.setAttribute("XMLName","XMLName");
            StringTemplate st2 = stg2.defineTemplate("prop","$reader(parser={eval2($node$)})$");
            st2.setAttribute("XMLName","XMLName2");
            System.out.println(st.toString());
            System.out.println(st2.toString());
      }
}

Yields an expected:

eval(get("XMLName").getText())
eval2(get("XMLName2").getAttribute())

What bothers me is the "Parser" template, which seems trivial.  It's there because I needed to set a conditional "node" variable, and the only way I could think to do it was to pass it as a parameter.

I thought about putting the "node" definition in the st2 definition, but then I am repeating it all over the place.

Jim
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