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Posted to user@velocity.apache.org by Stan Devyatovsky <st...@devyatovsky.com> on 2004/08/31 15:22:27 UTC
Re[2]: Capture directive
Hello Nathan,
Thanks for the info, Nathan! I will try searching the archive.
Still, I think this directive would be worth including it in official
package. I think it should be not difficult to implement.
>> Velocity has "set" directive:
>> #set($a = "text text text")
>>
>> Now is there something like #capture directive in Velocity?
>>
>> #capture($a)
>> text text
>> multiline text
>> <html tags here... />
>> #end
>>
>> So that $a variable would be assigned the content between "capture"
>> and "end"?
NB> there's nothing official, but there have been a few custom directives that do
NB> this posted over the years. it seems to me there was one posted about a year
NB> ago or so that was called #define and works like yours below. try searching
NB> the archives for it. if you can't find it, i think i still have a copy saved
NB> somewhere and i can repost it.
NB> oh, and i'm pretty sure that the current CVS HEAD of velocity supports line
NB> breaks in #set() statements, so you could do:
NB> #set( $a = "
NB> text text
NB> multiline text
NB> <html tags here... />
NB> " )
NB> but that's a slightly different thing functionally.
NB> Nathan Bubna
NB> nathan@esha.com
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