[stringtemplate-interest] Whitespace

[Terence Parr]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Andrew Bradnan wrote:

> Is there anyway to specify how much whitespace comes before the start of a template?

Unfortunately not. ST consumes all the white space before and after templates.

> Currently I have an attribute with a count.  I'd like to turn that into "\t" * count (in Python speak).  So if count was 10, I'd like 10 tabs before my template started.

Oh. that's easy using a renderer.

<x; format="10">

Then, for the type of variable x, register a renderer that knows how to interpret 10.

Ter