[antlr-interest] StringTemplate

[Terence Parr]

On May 1, 2004, at 1:32 PM, william_surowiec wrote:

> I am having conceptual problems in approaching a task on which I
> believe StringTemplate (ST hereafter) would be excellent.
>
> I will be creating an "xml-ish" view of a complex Java object. Make
> believe the example of "persons" in the documentation for ST was
> richer. Imagine, in addition to name and age, each person had zero or
> more courses taken while in school. Getting more complex, imagine,
> for each course, the person may have taken it one or more times (God
> knows I did). Lastly, imagine any person may have attended zero or
> more schools.
>
> I can build a Java bean, containing collections of other beans,
> containing other beans, ..., expressing this collection of stuff. But
> I do not see how I can get ST to process this structure - unless I am
> missing something.

Hi Bill,

Does the hierarchical menu example in the paper help at all?  
Essentially, you would ask for

person.courses

which returns a list of courses via person.getCourses().  You can apply 
a template to each course:

person.courses:course()

where course template might look like:

attr.name:bold()<br>
attr.attempt<br>
attr.school:terseSchoolView()

etc...

Does that get you started?

Ter
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