[stringtemplate-interest] Attribute not found exception?

[David Moshal]

Koen - I'd like to see an eclipse editor too.
I've also thought of doing it.

Dave


On 3/30/06, Koen Van Exem <koen at allors.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Terence,
>
> We have been using different tools over the years for our code generator.
> We started off like most people by using print statements in our code.
>
> The next step in the evolution was dumping our meta domain in an XML
> file and using XSLT to generate to code.
> One advantage of this approach was the we also used what you call
> 'template application' (Lisp's Map or XLTS' push model).
> The major drawback was that you need to know XSLT.
>
> Because of readability and maintainability we switched to Velocity.
> Velocity was chosen because one of our non-functional requirements was
> that it should be available for Java and .Net.
> Velocity served us well until we hit the 'recursion' wall ...
> In Velocity parameters are always allocated globally, so there is no
> sensible way to achieve recursion.
> There now is an unofficial workaround using #local() but it is not
> available on the .Net port (Nvelocity).
>
> So, I started looking for an alternative and found StringTemplate!
> We just completed the port to StringTemplate and I must say that we had
> to introduce some 'boolean' attributes in our domain
> but the resulting templates are far more concise and readable.
>
> What we noticed is that the templates now look a lot like our former
> XSLT templates,
> with one big difference that they're not XSLT ;-)
>
> If you should ever change the name of StringTemplate then I suggest
> ReverseParser, BackwardsParser or Resrap !
> I think this describes it best, it is a Parser used backwards ...
>
> The most important thing StringTemplate misses right now is some
> tooling, like editor support.
> Maybe I'll write an editor for Eclipse, what is actually not that
> difficult to do.
> But first we have to release Allors 1.0 ...
>
> Anyway thanks for the tool,
> Koen
>
>
> Terence Parr wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:22 AM, Koen Van Exem wrote:
> >>
> >> PS: I meant 'piece' of software, although it actually gave me some
> >> 'peace' of mind when switching from Velocity ;-)
> >
> > What didn't you like about Velocity?  How did you find ST?
> >
> > Ter
> > _______________________________________________
> > stringtemplate-interest mailing list
> > stringtemplate-interest at antlr.org
> > http://www.antlr.org:8080/mailman/listinfo/stringtemplate-interest
>
> _______________________________________________
> stringtemplate-interest mailing list
> stringtemplate-interest at antlr.org
> http://www.antlr.org:8080/mailman/listinfo/stringtemplate-interest
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.antlr.org:8080/pipermail/stringtemplate-interest/attachments/20060331/b1b53834/attachment.html