Comments on: Introducing ErlTL: A Simple Erlang Template Language

By: Erlang Examples » Record introspection at compile time

Erlang Examples » Record introspection at compile time — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:27:30 +0000

[...] template language like ErlyDTL or ErlTL [...]

By: Alieniloquent: Blog

Alieniloquent: Blog — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:54:44 +0000

[...] the views. Not YAWS pages. This will involve creating my own template language. I don’t like ErlTL for this as it is too [...]

By: Daniel Kwiecinski

Daniel Kwiecinski — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:25:41 +0000

If the *.et files contains top level expresions not in the first line (as in album.et) and are saved with Windows style line ending (CR+LF) instead of Unix one (LF), during the compilation I got the following error:

{error,{misplaced_top_exprs,{{line,2},
{chunk,” {Title, Artist, Songs} = Data %>\r”},
{msg,”top expressions must appear before all other expressions in a function”}}}}

Cheers,
Daniel

By: Dru Nelson

Dru Nelson — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:31:29 +0000

just saw this on Reddit, I think this is a great tool for Erlang!

By: taide

taide — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:23:45 +0000

Check this for inspiration, it’s very good: http://www.kieranholland.com/code/documentation/nevow-stan/

By: taide

taide — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:23:36 +0000

Check this for inspiration, it’s very good: http://www.kieranholland.com/code/documentation/nevow-stan/

By: Yariv

Yariv — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:07:12 +0000

Hi Dmitirii, I think ErlTL will work at least with UTF8 encoding, but I haven’t tried it myself. Would you like to give it a test drive and tell me what happens. If there are problems, I may be able to find a solution to dealing with different encoding schemes.

By: Dmitrii Dimandt aka Mamut

Dmitrii Dimandt aka Mamut — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:31:05 +0000

What about non-ASCII :)

Will ErlT be able to compile templates with, say, Unicode data in them?

The usual amount of drooling goes here :))

By: Yariv

Yariv — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:42:19 +0000

(Another advantage to ErlTL is that with ErlTL, Yaws doesn’t have to spend time expanding the ehtml structure.)

By: Yariv

Yariv — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:36:52 +0000

I think the two approaches are complementary. When your content is largely programatically generated, it’s easier to work with functions. When you have a lot of static binary text and you want to embed some dynamic expressions inside it, it may be more readable to use a ErlTL template. I think in this example, a hybrid approach could work well:

&lt;html&gt;

&lt;title&gt;...&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;body&gt;...&lt;% table(Data) %&gt;&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

In the end, it’s about readability. In addition, ErlTL helps newbies use binaries by default in places where they may mistakenly use strings.