[antlr-interest] Re: announcing 1.0.2 release of StringTemplate template engine

[Mark D. Anderson]

--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, Terence Parr <parrt at c...> wrote:
> StringTemplate is a really good example (umm...if I do say so myself) 
> of how to use ANTLR to build an interpreter (ANTLR converts templates 
> into text + trees.  To execute them, a tree parser walks the trees and 
> executes the actions, spitting out text etc...).

I was hoping it might also be a really good example of how to do
switching of token streams as a way to implement lexical states for
embedded languages.
That is, along the lines of  the "multilex" example in the antlr
distribution.

But instead I find a hand-written implementation in StringTemplate.java
with  charAt(cp) ... cp++ etc.
Surely this does not set a good example for impressionable young
people? :)

In particular, for the cases where StringTemplate is going to be used on
html templates, it'd be nice to be able to be able to offer validation of
the html chunks.

I don't see how delimeter escaping is done btw.

-mda


 

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