[html-template-devel] Possibility of changing tag names

[Edi Weitz]

Hi!

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:39:19 +0100, Luis Oliveira <luismbo at netcabo.pt> wrote:

> First off, many thanks for you great Lisp softwares. They are useful
> for both using and reading. :-)

Thanks... :)

> After seeing the *template-(start|end)-marker* special variables I
> wondered why not do that same for the TMPL_* tokens. I'm not sure if
> it's a good idea or not but since it was so trivial to implement I'm
> sending you a patch in attach.
>
> The documention might need further editing.

I already applied the patch and almost released a new version but I
didn't because the documentation for this really needs to be
improved. No kidding - I like it when software is well-documented and
I currently can't come up with a good terminology to explain what
these new special variables do with respect to the rest of the
documentation. You know what I mean? "Determine the occurence of a VAR
tag." What is a "VAR tag?" It hasn't been defined elsewhere, not even
mentioned. Furthermore, the section about semantics uses the default
values, like TMPL_VAR, to explain how HTML-TEMPLATE works. So these
parts of the docs should also be changed to accomodate your patch but
on the other hand they shouldn't be too abstract so people still
understand what's happening.

I'm a bit in a hurry so I don't have the time to sit down and think
about this. So either you send an improved version of the docs or
this'll have to wait until I have more time.

Thanks,
Edi.