From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2003-12-20T04:21:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Amrita question(s)

I checked out the amrita mailing list and the archives seem to indicate 
that it is defunct.  So I think that this is the next most closely 
related list for stuff like this.  At least, this has been my assumption.

I think the answer to #1 is yes.  If you just want text of some kind and 
no other formatting, or if formatting has been declared elsewhere 
already, then span is what you want to use.

The answer to #2, is that this is what amrita does by default.  If you 
want to keep the unfound tags in, you have to set template.keep_id to 
true ("template" here is an instance of TemplateFile).

However, your example is showing something slightly different.  I would 
do something like:

<span id=name></span>

in my template file and then just

data[:name] = 'Name: Joe Blow'

That way you get all or nothing.

Michael Campbell wrote:
> First off, is this the place to ask?  If not, apologies, and please
> point me to the right spot.
> 
> 2 questions:
> 
> 1 Is "span" the recommended way of dumping an element outside of any
> other tags, when no formatting is required (nor desired)?
> 
> 2 Is there a way to mask out non-data elements if a data-element
> doesn't exist?
> 
> Suppose I have in my html:
> 
> Name: <span id=name></span>
> 
> I don't want "Name:" to show if the :name id doesn't exist.  I'm sure
> I'm overlooking something fundamental here, but I've just started so
> not sure where to look.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
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