Phillip Pearson - web + electronics notes

Why are there so many Java templating engines, when JSP is right there for you to use? I'm starting to understand -- JSP has a strange 'feel'. It should be possible to do FreeEnergy with the include directive though. Hmm.

The start of an experiment:

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import sys
html = open(sys.argv[1]).read()

while 1:
    x = html.split('<%', 1)
    if x[0]:
        print 'out.write("%s");' % x[0].replace('\\', '\\\\').replace('"', '\"').replace('\n', '\\n')
    if len(x) == 1: break
    code, html = x[1].split('%>', 1)
    if code:
        if code[0] == '=': code = 'out.write(%s)' % code[1:]
        print code

More on this later.