Re: Create a new node tree

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 11:26:19 PM, Denis Bredelet wrote:

> Hello
>
> I would like to use FreeMarker for some XML transformation job. Is
> there a built-in way to create new nodes, so that I can make changes to the tree?
> Is it better to output the new tree as text in the template?
>
> <NewNode>
> [#recurse children[0]]
>    <NewNode2>
>    [#recurse children[1]]
>    </NewNode2>
> </NewNode>
>
> versus
>
> [#assign NewNode = .node?new_child] (imaginary built-in)
> [#assign NewNode[children[0]?node_name] = children[0]]
> etc.

FreeMarker doesn't transform XML in the sense as XSLT does, namely, it
doesn't transform a tree of nodes to another tree of nodes, but a tree
of nodes (plus possibly other data) to text (stream of char-s), which
for example can be XML of course. So you just output the new tree as
text.

> Thank you.
> -- Denis.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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