From: Dan Debertin <airboss@...>
Date: 2002-08-29T00:49:52+09:00
Subject: Amrita: simple variable interpolation

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I'm just playing with Amrita today in anticipation of a CGI project
looming in my future. It looks perfect -- no more forcing my data into
weird hashes of arrays of single-element hashes, and other
monstrosities.

I'm able to apply it to everything described in the docs -- tables,
lists, etc. -- but I don't see a way to perform simple variable
substitution. My understanding is that it requires a preceding tag
with an "id=" attribute, but ordinary text doesn't necessarily have
tags.

For example, here's what I would do using HTML::Template:

(template)
<P>
My dog's name is <!var:dogname>.

(elided code)
tmpl.param(:dogname => "grumpy")

tmpl.output # --> "<P>\nMy dog's name is grumpy.\n"

Now, there's no tag in there to apply an id attribute to, so I'm a
little stumped as to how to do this with Amrita.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Dan


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