Re: [Freemarker-devel] interested in feedback with new template engine

I only see it once. No big deal anyway.

But why no announcement on the Velocity list? Maybe you think they
would get angry and we won't... :-)

Of course, somebody who still uses Velocity and hasn't switched to
FreeMarker, why would they switch to ZipScript?

JR

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Joe Hudson <[email protected]> wrote:
> [sorry if this appears more than once - I sent it from the wrong account
> previously and canceled the message so I don't think it will]
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have created a new template engine to address some missing functionality
> that I have wanted in FreeMarker for a long time.  I would really appreciate
> feedback from anyone that would like to kick the tires.  It is called
> ZipScript and can be found at http://www.zipscript.org (which will take you
> to the googlecode project page).
>
> Also, I am not terribly good at writing friendly documentation and would
> appreciate anyone that would like to participate in the growth of this
> project with me especially in the docs area...
>
> Some of the features that I have address are:
>
> - can define macro parameters as nested components (which gives you the
> ability to create complex UI components)
> - added a formatting character '|' so you can do stuff like ${myDate|"MMM
> dd, yyyy"} or ${myDate|short}
> - added boolean and object evaluators so you can get more than just merge a
> template with an object model to get the string results
>
> Thank you all very much.  And, thank you FreeMarker guys for such a great
> product.
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