From: Nat Pryce <nat.pryce@...13media.com>
Date: 2002-08-29T02:34:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Amrita: simple variable interpolation

Use a span element in the text and give the span an ID.  E.g.

<p>
My dog's name is <span id="dogname">dog name goes here</span>
</p>

The text "dog name goes here" will be replaced in the generated
document.

Cheers,
	Nat.

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 16:49, Dan Debertin wrote:
> 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?

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