Template and macro processing is perhaps more common in Tcl than many scripting languages, and many tools have been published.
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!
- handlebars
- mustache
- Preprocessor
- Macro Facility for Tcl
- a discussion that includes some ideas and examples from RS, jcw, and others
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, by SS
- a Lisp-like macro system for Tcl.
- Subst template expansion helpers
- Peter Spjuth's Chiselapp
- includes "an experminent on compiled macros" with a very small core mod (original patch submission @ sourceforge ). This is interesting for the very simplicity of the approach
- knit, by PYK
- a macro system that leverages tailcall
- cmacro
- a C-preprocessor-like macro substitution mechanism for Tcl source code.
- Percent Substitution
- tpp
- A CPP-like preprocessor.
- 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. rivet::parse can be used to create macros
- mod_dtcl
- nstcl
- the OpenACS templating system
- scripted templates
- where the template itself is a syntactically valid Tcl script
- smacro
- A tool for programmatically generating embedded content within a file, similar to C/C++ preprocessor directives, except that the embedded code is expressed in Tcl.
- teaspoon, by xan
- a PHP-like templating engine for Tcl, and works particularly well with tanzer
- 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 :
Description
The cardinal rule for templating a Tcl script is that a value being interpolated into a Tcl script as a word must be escaped as a list containing that value as its lone word. This rule does not apply, of course, to the interpolation script fragments. See Tcl Quoting for further discussion.