LOTS of whitespace

Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:27:19 am

I don't think we have the ability to have both right now. There has been discussion of a whitespace wash operator that would allow us to control the whitespace output by the templates, but as far as I am aware, we have to sacrifice readability of the templates, or layout of our templates.

Really annoying.

Alex

Alex
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Wednesday 05 November 2003 6:19:25 am

Thanks for your help guys.

Well it looks like I am going to have to keep 2 versions (1 editing, 1 published).

Still have to be careful mind you as if I have 2 comments on different lines one after the other

eg.

{* comment 1 *}
{* comment 2 *}

then ez keeps the line break, but if I put them on one line it's OK.

and if I have a comment after a tag

eg.

{/let} {* end let foo=bar*}

then it keeps the space inbetween and the line break.

Also don't think much of their rules as they cause white space.

Come on eZ! surely stripping out/preventing whitespace should be one of the highest priorities when building a templating engine!