XML and the BL Compiler

["Jason" <judgej (at) xaraya.com>]

"Marcel van der Boom" <marcel (at) hsdev.com> wrote in message 
news:ejbujb$itg$1 (at) newton.xaraya.com...
> Brian Bain wrote:
>> My template looks something like this:
>>
>> <#$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

Very nice :-)


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