[stringtemplate-interest] Padding for all

[Terence Parr]

On Jun 1, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Dreyer Ulf (CR/APA3) wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Is there a simple way in ST to pad
> any outputvalue from within a template?

Not that I can think of.  We do not have a length operator yet.

> That is without defining a load of
> wrapper classes (attribute renderers).

Perhaps somethign in the output writer object?

> Although padding is a computation on the data
> it does not (not really) depend on the data
> but on the output and should be possible within
> templates.

it would not violate separation I don't think.  length is not a  
function of data value, just an attribute of the data.

Ter