RE: html macro library

Perhaps I'm missing something, but what would be the point of such a thing?

You would never create a library that supports all the features of HTML
properly
(what if you want your link to have a target? a class? a style?) - you will 
inevitably end up doing some of the HTML "by hand", resulting in
inconsistencies.

And really, how is 
        <a href="$link">$text</a> 
any worse than
        #html_href($link, $text)

The first is pretty obvious even to someone not very familiar with Velocity,
the second is puzzling even if you know what VTL and macros are - until you
see the code
of the macro you don't know what it's doing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Bolton [mailto:kbolton@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:07 AM
To: velocity-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: html macro library


Has anyone developed a macro library for standard html items?  For
example:
 
#macro (html_href $link $text)

<a href='$link'>$text</a>

#end 

 
--------------------
Kevin Bolton
Paychex Inc 
(585) 216-0808
 <mailto:kbolton@paychex>  
 



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