Extending TMPL_IF

Andrea Spinelli — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:11:15 -0000

I (aspinelli@imteam.it) have added a feature to the
TMPL_IF tag: if the
equals attribute is set, the condition
evaluates to true
if and only if the value of the variable (which must be
a String)
equals the value of the attribute. The same
behaviour
applies to TMPL_UNLESS.

For instance
<TMPL_IF name="foo" value="bar">
Some HTML Text
</TMPL_IF>

This does not follow the route set by HTML::Template,
which is to have a expression attribute to
evaluate,
because we not have any eval here in Java-land.

On the other hand, IMHO, many things can be done just
with string equality and inequality; since it is a
20-line change, I think it is worth the while.

I did not investigate fully the tests, so some of them are
now broken; is there somebody more competent than me
able to fix things up?

By the way, is somebody alive there (latest messages
belong to 2002) ?

Hello
Andrea

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Extending TMPL_IF