Version 42 of Template and Macro processing

Updated 2014-04-05 00:53:25 by pooryorick

Template and macro processing is perhaps more common in Tcl than many scripting languages, and many tools have been published.

Macro/Substitution Tools

expand ,by William Duquette
A dedicated T/M processor. The core of expand was added to tcllib/textutil.
Tmac ,by Roy Terry
a general-purpose macro package for expanding and substituting Tcl code.
Sugar
a Lisp-like macro system for Tcl.
Subst template expansion helpers
Percent Substitution
FrontLine ,by Koen Van Damme
the author has used Frontline to write a preprocessor based upon Tcl to get more power than provided by the C/C++ preprocessor.

Template Tools

TclHttpd ,by Brent Welch
a web server that includes a template processor
Kinetic Application Processor ,by AsiaInfo
a web server that includes a template processor
Tml a component of BrowseX
a template processing system for both dynamic and static content.
Apache Rivet
the successor to mod_dtcl
mod_dtcl
nstcl
the OpenACS templating system
TemplaTcl
has just two tags, ASP-like, easily expandable, and relatively safe, as it runs in a safe interpreter.
tmpl_parser
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.
TemplateRecall
tclTemplateToolkit2
A partial Tcl implementation of the TemplateToolkit :

See Also

Templates and subst
presents substify and applytemplate.
Web Templating
Text Clipboard
Code Generation
FrontLine
Backquoting
castle
ctrans
emacs package to insert templated code interactively
tic-tac-toe
not just a game - it is a templating system as well!
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