Template Tag References

Supported template tags are:

• template:attribute
• template:each
• template:href
• template:include
• template:link
• template:text
• template:when

template:attribute

Adds an attribute to the parent element.

Element Attributes

Name	Description	Required
name	The name of the attribute to add or modify in the parent	yes
eval	The expression to be evaluated by site spec	yes

Example

<div>
   <template:attribute name="class" eval="center_class"/>
   ...
</div>

This will generate:

<div class="Column2Center">
 ...
</div>

template:each

Load the XML document, iterate through a list of selected XML elements and use them as the source to process all children elements.

Element Attributes

Name	Descrption	Required
source	Path(relative to content root) or URL of the XML document	yes
select	XPath used to select the XML elements	yes
count	Number of the selected elements to process	yes

Example

This is useful for generating list like latest news.

<template:each source="news_rss2" select="/rss/channel/item" count="3">
  <div class="NewsItem">
    <p class="NewsTitle"><template:include elements="./title/text()"/></p>
    <p class="NewsDate"><template:include elements="./pubDate/text()"/></p>
    <p class="NewsText"><template:include elements="./xhtml:div/node()"/></p>
  </div>
</template:each>	

template:href

Based on the position of the current file, generate href (for <a> tag) or src (for <img> tag) attribute that contains the relative path to the target file reference.

Element Attributes

Name	Description	Required
url	Path (relative to content roott) or the URL of the referencd link or image	yes

Example

<img><template:href url="images/logo.gif"/></img>

The above example will generate the following result for the file in <content_root>/doc/help.html

<img src="../images/logo.gif"/>

template:include

Include the element of the current source content file.

Element Attributes

Name	Descrption	Required
elements	xpath expression used to select the elements to include	yes

Example

<template:include elements="/html/head/title/text()"/>

template:link

Generate the <a> tag with correct relative path or URL, or <div class="current"> if the current file is the referenced file.

Element Attributes

Name	Description	Required
href	path (relative to content root) or URL of the link	yes

Example

<li><template:link href="download.html">Download and Dependencies</template:link></li>

template:text

Generate dynamictext text content.

Element Attributes

Name	Description	Required
property	static property set up in site spec	yes

<template:text property="release"/>

template:when

Conditionally process the children elements.

Element Attributes

Name	Descrption	Required
test	expression to evaluate, children will be processed if a true value is returned	yes

Example

<template:when test="index_file?">