XML and the BL Compiler

[Marcel van der Boom <marcel (at) hsdev.com>]

Brian Bain wrote:
> My template looks something like this:
> 
> <#$element#>
>    <item id="#$id#" name="#$name#" />
> </#$element#>
> 
> Essentially the $element is the ID of one of any number of on screen 
> select boxes and the item is an option to be added to the select box.  
> The whole thing works if I replace #$element# with a hardcoded text string.
> 
> Is there a more appropriate way to handle this?  Has there been any 
> thought with respect to this type of issue going forward?

In the 2.x branch i have defined the beginnings of a xar:element tag. 
Your template with your example would look like this:

<xar:element name="#$element#">
   <item id="#$id#" name="#$name#" />
</xar:element>

The handler to produce this is not very complicated and you could port 
it back to your 1.x installation. The 2.x implementation looks 
something like this:

http://pastie.textmate.org/22624

marcel


PS
similar to xar:element there will also be a xar:attribute tag which 
generates attributes, but that tag is much harder to implement, if not 
impossible in BL1
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