From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-06-22T08:13:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Enabling/disabling HTML with Amrita

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 06:33 +0900, Eric Schwartz wrote:
> I know with Amrita, if you pass nil as the data for a template
> element, it doesn't get printed.  What I'm interested in is in
> conditional container elements, such as <span> or <tr>, that print
> their templated content when enabled.  See my test below:
> 
> emschwar@wilson:/tmp$ cat bah.templ
> <table>
> <tr><td id="cell1" />/></tr>
> <tr id="row2"><td id="cell2" /></tr>
> </table>
> 
> emschwar@wilson:/tmp$ cat ./amrita-test
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> require 'amrita/template'
> 
> data1 = { :cell1 => "Cell 1" }
> 
> data2 = { :cell1 => "Cell 1",
>           :row2  => "testing",
>           :cell2 => "Cell 2" }
> 
> template = Amrita::TemplateFile.new("bah.templ")
> 
> template.expand(STDOUT, data1)
> puts
> template.expand(STDOUT, data2)
> 
> emschwar@wilson:/tmp$ ./amrita-test
> <table>
> <tr><td>Cell 1</td></tr>
> 
> </table>
> 
> <table>
> <tr><td>Cell 1</td></tr>
> <tr>testing</tr>
> </table>
> emschwar@wilson:/tmp$
> 
> Obviously, what I'm looking for in the second case is something like
> <table>
> <tr><td>Cell 1</td></tr>
> <tr><td>Cell 2</td></tr>
> </table>
> 
> I've been resorting to templating tricks like
> 
> <tr><td id="cell2" /></tr>
> 
> but that leaves an empty table row in there when there's no 'cell2',
> which is not always what I want.  In the particular application I'm
> using it for, it's okay, but it's kinda ugly.  How can I get there
> from here?  Or can I?

<tr><td><span amrita:id='cell2'>Cell 2</span></td></tr>

Ari