This page collects information about Tcl applications and libraries that facilitate the processing of templates and/or macro files.
A dedicated T/M processor is expand by William Duquette. Note: The core of expand was added to tcllib/textutil.
Tmac http://www.tclbuzz.com/v0/tmac (2011-04-29: URL hitting a 404) is a general-purpose macro package for expanding and substituting Tcl code. - Roy Terry, 2 April 2003. There is also a wiki page devoted to tmac and to comments, suggestions and discussion: Tmac - a Tcl macro processor package.
Two Tcl-based webservers, TclHttpd by Brent Welch and the Kinetic Application Processor by AsiaInfo, incorporate template processors as a means to serve pages with dynamic content and to allow the imposition of a site-wide look & feel.
It is unclear how these three processors compare in features, speed, and other facilities.
Lest anyone forget, the Apache Software Foundation also has a project that utilizes Tcl as a web scripting language: mod_dtcl (see also Apache Rivet for the successor to mod_dtcl).
Tml[L1 ], which is part of BrowseX, is a template processing system for both dynamic and static content.
nstcl implements the OpenACS templating system.
Sugar is a Lisp-like macro system for Tcl.
TemplaTcl is a Tcl template engine. It has just two tags, ASP-like, and it is easily expandable, and relatively safe, as it runs in a safe interpreter.
tmpl_parser is another template engine.
Templates and subst: see [substify] and [applytemplate].
Open Liquid is a parsing and rendering engine for the Liquid Markup Language written in C++ with the goal of being bindable to any scripting language interpreter. Currently, only TCL is supported through the TCL C API. [L2 ]
Subst template expansion helpers
A partial Tcl implementation of the TemplateToolkit : http://chiselapp.com/user/jdc/repository/tclTemplateToolkit2/home
Koen Van Damme announced in a post to The comp.lang.tcl newsgroup that he has written a preprocessor based upon Tcl to get more power than provided by the C/C++ preprocessor. See http://www.gener8.be/site/articles/code_generation/code_generation.html .
Related pages in this wiki are Text Clipboard, Code Generation, FrontLine, Backquoting, castle, ctrans.
Bezoar Check out Tcl code generation in emacs Templating system for Tcl in Emacs
escargo 27 Nov 2007 - It's been some days now, but there is no page for that subject yet. Is it the wrong name? Perhaps you mean emacs package to insert templated code interactively?
tic-tac-toe is not just a game - it is a templating system as well!
handlebars.tcl is port of handlebars.js (http://handlebarsjs.com/ ), a logicless templating language.