[#SCALATE-11] Use a scala combinator parser to parse the ssp files

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Use a scala combinator parser to parse the ssp files

Created: 01/Feb/10 03:26 AM Updated: 01/Feb/10 06:16 PM

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scalate-core

Affects Version/s:

1.0

Fix Version/s:

1.0

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using a combinator parser should make it simpler to maintain.

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James Strachan added a comment - 01/Feb/10 10:03 AM - edited

BTW one idea I had was, once we had a scala combinator parser; it'd be easy to add a parser for open & close tags. Once we had that, we could maybe implement 'custom tags using XML markup'.

e.g. we could let folks do stuff like this - but without requiring XML syntax (though using a purely XML based template engine would make stuff like this loads easier to implement...)

<html xmlns:f="scala:com.foo.acme.MyTags">
 ...
  <f:cheese blah="123" dynamicExample={some.foo(123)}">
   ...
  </f:cheese>
</html>

which would just be syntax sugar for

<html>
  <% import com.foo.acme.MyTags._ %>
...
  <%= cheese(blah="123", dynamicExample=some.foo(123)) { %>
   ...
  <% } %>
</html>

i.e. for every open/close tag we could look to see if its namespace starts with "scala:" and if so, transform it into a method call + open block or close block etc

Its not a huge biggie - but some folks might like to hide 'tags' behind XML markup tags which are a little less brittle when folks mess with templates in tools etc

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Hiram Chirino added a comment - 01/Feb/10 06:16 PM

ssp files are now being parsed with combinator parsers.