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%TMPL:DEF defined templates do not instantiate as written. This is because the template reading code strips leading and trailing newlines. This is a major PITA (and the major source of bugs in the CommentPlugin).

For example,

%TMPL:DEF{"mytable"}%
| My | Table |
%TMPL:END%

This is %TMPL:P{"mytable"}% my table
instantantiates as

This is | My | Table | my table

and not the more intuitive

This is

My Table
my table

I understand why it was coded that way, I think (because HTML doesn't care about spaces) but the implementation is counter-intuitive and a source of confusion.

Proposal: stop %TMPL:DEF from stripping leading and trailing newlines.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 Oct 2004


Ah. Well, be careful how you word that proposal and requirement. We don't want vertical white space translated into lots of <p/>

In fact I wonder why some some templates have so much gratuitious vertical white space?

-- AJA

On the contrary; we want templates do do exactly what is written on the tin. I don't want my templates pre-munged, thank you - there are cases where I want that leading newline.

Also removed redundant conversion of spaces to tabs.

SVN 8031

CC

Merge to TWikiRelease04x00

CC

This is a spec change. Did you evaluate the impact on this change?

Of course. I asked for feedback on this several months ago, and received much.

I am concerned that this will break existing skins.

Yes, it will, except the skins we ship which are already fixed.

-- PTh

PatternSkin has been changed (a few months ago) to cope with this change.

AC

4.1.0 released

KJL

ItemTemplate
Summary Don't strip newlines from the front of TMPL:DEFs
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie
Codebase 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, ~twiki4
SVN Range Thu, 02 Feb 2006 build 8675
AppliesTo Engine
Component

Priority Enhancement
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins 11017 8926
TargetRelease minor
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Topic revision: r11 - 2007-01-16 - KennethLavrsen
 
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