[stringtemplate-interest] IronStringTemplate

[Terence Parr]

note that I'm completely rewriting ST in August/September (same  
functionality but cleaned up and ANTLR v3 clean; no v2).
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On Jun 29, 2009, at 5:32 AM, Robert Byrne wrote:

> The primary reason is that I need to use 3rd party asp.net server  
> controls, which StringTemplate as it stands won’t support. Short of  
> trying to render the server controls into html chunks and insert  
> them into a template (something I have already investigated) I would  
> have to stick with the standard webforms view engine and be done  
> with it.
>
> From: Todd Stout [mailto:todd.tstout at gmail.com]
> Sent: 29 June 2009 13:15
> To: Robert Byrne
> Cc: stringtemplate-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: Re: [stringtemplate-interest] IronStringTemplate
>
> StringTemplate works just fine with .Net now.  What is the  
> motivation for re-implementing it?
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Robert Byrne <rob at fractis.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I’m toying with the idea of building a StringTemplate implementation  
> for the DLR (Microsoft .NET Dynamic Language Runtime), hence the  
> Iron prefix which matches up with other projects like IronPython,  
> IronRuby etc.
>
>
>
> The primary use case I’m thinking is for ASP.NET, where I have one  
> pressing need: I must be able to use existing ASP.NET server  
> controls. This means I can’t use StringTemplate out of the box, so  
> it got me thinking about building an interpreter/translator that  
> would sit on top of normalASP.NET MVC pages. I really believe in the  
> clean view only semantics and philosophy of StringTemplate, as well  
> as its clean syntax, especially as the templates are edited by web  
> designers who cant deal with the traditional ASP.NET syntax.
>
>
>
> I also feel that a native .NET implementation on the DLR with  
> ASP.NET in mind can provide a better developer experience (i.e.  
> support for concepts useful in web application development) and  
> better performance/scalability too.
>
>
>
> Because I want to get my hands dirty with the DLR and ANTLR, I'm  
> essentially scratchbuilding the project, starting from a handwritten  
> grammar up.
>
>
>
> Would there be any interest in this? I can imagine there are a few  
> people who want to adopt StringTemplate but are bound by the  
> requirement to use existing 3rd party server controls like datagrids  
> etc, or would like to use traditional ASP.NET views with some  
> StringTemplate markup.
>
>
>
> Also, is there any objection to the use of the name/syntax in an  
> ‘unofficial’ spin off, considering that it would not be a fully  
> compatible implementation (I intend not to implement some advanced  
> features like parallel template application (for now) as well as add  
> some additional features that are meaningful to web application  
> development, also no groups). I would of course include all the  
> relevant notices and attributions. My only concern is that it could  
> cause confusion in the community, as to what the relationship is  
> between the ‘official’ version and this upstart one.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts are welcome.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert.
>
>
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