Re: Omitting template markup characters

Monday, April 26, 2010, 6:07:22 PM, Kjeld wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to output a simple text file using Freemarker. I noticed that
> the markup of the template file is copied to the output file: carriage
> returns, linefeeds, indentations, blank spaces, all that are 'outside' the
> markup tags are copied into the output stream as well, next to the text I am
> actually trying to produce. 
>
> Is it possible to configure Freemarker in such a way that all markup
> characters in the template file will be omitted and only the characters that
> are inside the tags are copied to the output file? 
>
> E.g. I want the following template
>
> <#list 1..5 as i>
>         ${'a'}
> </#list>
>
> ...to return: aaaaa instead of 
>      a
>      a
>      a
>      a
>      a
>
> Thanks, 
> Kjeld

Are you using Coniguration.getPlainTextTemplate? Because then that's
the problem. The purpose of that method is exactly to get a template
that just outputs the source file as is. Use getTemplate instead, then
it will work. Admittedly there is a misnomer here, as
getPlainTextTemplate should be called getStaticTextTemplate... Since
FreeMarker doesn't care about MIME types and is not HTML-aware,
getTemplate can be used for everything, and so for text/plain as well.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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