On 08/12/2017 17:28, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2017-12-07 19:52, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Would it be possible/practical to extend the merge function to at
least allow things like control structures with non-LC stuff in
between them?
A LC Server script is an alternating sequence of code and text blocks.
Once you have that alternating sequence, you could replace the text
blocks with a call to a handler with a parameter which is a custom
prop of the stack containing the text content.
Would it not be easier to transform the text blocks in to a (series of)
"put" statement(s) ?
Being "put"ted is exactly what is going to happen to the text in the
non-code blocks, so why not just do that.
Also, that means that the LC Server script can be turned into a
script-only stack - which would feel more natural to me. And, it would
continue to be visible in-line, therefore retaining (more or less) the
same self-documenting characteristic as the original script.
It's much more legible (to me) to replace
<?lc if a = b then ?>
<p>Some data that happens to be HTML</p>
<?lc else ?>
<p>Some other data that happens to be HTML</p>
<?lc end if ?>
with
if a = b then
put " <p>Some data that happens to be HTML</p> " & CR
else
put " <p>Some other data that happens to be HTML</p> & CR
end if
rather than
if a = b then
someHandler myPropertyName1
else
someHandler myPropertyName2
end if
OK, OK, you need to handle quotes within the HTML - but it should be
easy enough.
-- Alex.
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