Re: [xwiki-devs] [Idea] Look at Thymeleaf as an optional templating language?

On 4 Jan 2018, at 12:47, Marius Dumitru Florea <mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote: On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Paul Libbrecht <paul(a)hoplahup.net> wrote: None. I want to be able to use the templating language to generate JSON, XML, CSV, etc. i.e. whatever text format I need. For instance I want to generate the live table results JSON using the templating language like I do now with Velocity.

> > paul > > On 4 Jan 2018, at 11:24, Eduard Moraru wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < >> mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> From the home page it looks very HTML oriented, which is not good for > us. I >>> think we need a general purpose templating language that can be used to >>> generate anything (JSON, XML, CSV, etc.) not just HTML. >>> >> >> Yeah, my first impression was that it looks very similar to JSF, maybe a >> bit simplified and less configuration needy. >> >> Thanks, >> Eduard >> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:48 PM, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; >>> wrote: >>> >>>> See http://www.thymeleaf.org/ >>>> >>>> With this, users could combine HTML and scripting which could be a nice >>>> option when using the {{html}} macro for example. >>>> >>>> {{html}} >>>> {{thymeleaf}} >>>> … >>>> {{/thymeleaf}} >>>> {{/html}} >>>> >>>> Related: >>>> * https://dzone.com/articles/template-engines-review-after- >>>> deprecated-velocity >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent >>>> >>>> >>> >