Re: comments trump newline?

+1 with Daniel.

Hello Jonathan,
Yes I can use <#ftl strip_whitespace=false>, but that affect the
entire template, and I only have problem for that single new line
space.

I have to say this expected behavior is a bit confusing. If you say
"Whitespace between non-outputting elements (comments among them) is
stripped. ", then to me, it's white-space that are enclosed will be
striped, but  a  well defined separated two non-outputting elements.

For example if I have these
<#if cond>

</#if>

or even this
<#-- c1

-->

Then the whitespace is stripped is WHAT I expected, but this
<#-- c1 -->

<#-- c2 -->

Shouldn't strip my whitespace in between.

This is just my feedback as user.

-Z

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 10:14:24 AM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
>
>> This is the expected behavior, unless your template begins with something like
>> <#ftl strip_whitespace=false>
>>
>> Whitespace between non-outputting elements (comments among them) is
>> stripped.
>
> I hope you don't keep this behavior with comments in 2.4. A comment
> should not influence the output in any way, except that the whitespace
> in its own line should be removed if the comment is the only thing in
> that line (beside whitespace).
>
>> Also, the whitespace on a line that contains only non-outputting
>> elements is ignored.
>
> Except that for user-defined FTL tags you don't know which is
> outputting, so it's not entirely true.
>
>> JR
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Zemian Deng <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I have this template:
>>>
>>> ONE
>>> <#-- comment here -->
>>> TWO
>>> <#-- -->
>>> THREE
>>> =====
>>> ONE
>>> <#-- comment here -->
>>>
>>> <#-- -->
>>> THREE
>>>
>>> And I get this output:
>>> ONE
>>> TWO
>>> THREE
>>> =====
>>> ONE
>>> THREE
>>>
>>> Should I be getting a empty line above the second THREE? I tried with
>>> multiple empty lines between comments, and they all get stripped out.
>>> Is this expected?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Z
>>>
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> Best regards,
>  Daniel Dekany
>
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