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diff --git a/docu/language_definition.html b/docu/language_definition.html index 934042d..a21a869 100644 --- a/docu/language_definition.html +++ b/docu/language_definition.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en"> <head> - <title>Language definition - Stupid Template Engine</title> + <title>Language definition - STE Template Engine</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> code, code pre { font-family: monospace; @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ </head> <body> - <h1>The <acronym>STE</acronym> Template/Programming Language</h1> - <p>This is the documentation of the Template/Programming Language of the <strong>S</strong>tupid <strong>T</strong>emplate <strong>E</strong>ngine, or <acronym>STE T/PL</acronym></p> + <h1>The <acronym>STE</acronym> Template Language</h1> + <p>This is the documentation of the Template Language of the <strong>S</strong>TE <strong>T</strong>emplate <strong>E</strong>ngine.</p> <h2 id="toc">TOC</h2> <ol> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ </ol> <h2 id="basic_elems">Basic Elements</h2> - <p>The <acronym>STE T/PL</acronym> consists of four basic elements:</p> + <p>The STE Template Language consists of four basic elements:</p> <h3 id="basic_elems_text">Text</h3> <p>Everything that is not a <a href="#basic_elems_variable">Variable</a>, a <a href="#basic_elems_tag">Tag</a> or a <a href="#basic_elems_pseudotag">Pseudotag</a> is Text.</p> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ <p>Variable have names, these names can consist of letters (english alphabet; upper and lower case), numbers and underscores (<code>_</code>). As a regex: <code>[a-zA-Z0-9_]+</code></p> <p>A variable can also be an array. To access an array, wrap the desired fieldname within <code>[</code> and <code>]</code>. A fieldname can be constructed of <a href="#basic_elems_text">Text</a> and other Variables. So you can dynamically access fields: <code>$foo[$bar]</code>. These fieldnames can also be nested or concatenated: <code>$foo[$bar[baz]][herp][$de[derp]]</code></p> <p>If you want a literal <code>$</code> char, you can escape it: <code>\$</code></p> - <p>Variables in <acronym>STE T/PL</acronym> are typeless, everything is text. In a boolean context, empty text usually represents false, else true.</p> + <p>Variables in STE are typeless, everything is text. In a boolean context, empty text usually represents false, else true.</p> <h3 id="basic_elems_tag">Tag</h3> <p>A Tag can be compared to a function. A Tag can have parameters and children <a href="#basic_elems">elements</a>.</p> @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ <p>The ste:rawtext pseudotag will output a <a href="#basic_elems_text">Text</a> element with its wrapped content. It will prevent parsing of the content. Useful if you are embedding another script language, which uses the <code>$</code> char or also has a XML-Like syntax. No <a href="#escaping">escape sequences</a> will be translated! Can not be used in <a href="#basic_elems_tag">Tag</a> parameter values!</p> <h2 id="escaping">Escaping special chars</h2> - <p>To get a literal <code>$</code>, <code>"</code> or other special chars, <acronym>STE T/PL</acronym> gives you the following escape sequences:</p> + <p>To get a literal <code>$</code>, <code>"</code> or other special chars, STE gives you the following escape sequences:</p> <table> <thead> <tr> @@ -203,12 +203,12 @@ <p>Escape sequences are not translated in <a href="#basic_elems_pseudotag">Pseudotags</a></p> <h2 id="builtin">Builtin Tags</h2> - <p><acronym>STE</acronym> has some builtin <a href="#basic_elems_tag">Tags</a>, that makes programming in <acronym>STE T/PL</acronym> possible.</p> + <p><acronym>STE</acronym> has some builtin <a href="#basic_elems_tag">Tags</a>, that makes programming in STE possible.</p> <h3 id="builtin_if">ste:if</h3> - <p>The ste:if Tag provides an if-clause to <acronym>STE T/PL</acronym>.</p> + <p>The ste:if Tag provides an if-clause to STE.</p> <p>ste:if can have the subtags ste:then and ste:else. Everything between <code><ste:if></code> and <code></ste:if></code>, that is <strong>not</strong> an ste:then or ste:else tag, will be used as the condition.</p> - <p>Because <acronym>STE T/PL</acronym> is typeless, every empty string (trailing whitespaces will be ignored) is considered as false, everything else is true.</p> + <p>Every empty string (trailing whitespaces will be ignored) is considered as false, everything else is true.</p> <p>If the condition is true (i.e. not empty), the content of the ste:then block will be executed. Otherwise the ste:else tag (if present) will be executed.</p> <p>The ste:then Tag is mandatory, the ste:else tag is optional.</p> <p> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ <p>This Tag is pretty slow, because the formula is not transcompiled and only evaluated at runtime. For some simple increment and decrement operations it is better to use the <a href="#stdlib_inc">ste:inc</a> and <a href="#stdlib_dec">ste:dec</a> Tags from the <a href="#stdlib">standard library</a>.</p> <h3 id="builtin_mktag">ste:mktag</h3> - <p>ste:mktag allows you to define own <a href="#basic_elems_tag">Tags</a> using <acronym>STE T/PL</acronym>.</p> + <p>ste:mktag allows you to define own <a href="#basic_elems_tag">Tags</a> using the STE Template Language.</p> <p>The parameter <code>name</code> (mandatory) expects the name of the new tag. If your tag requires some parameters, you can specify them using the optional <code>mandatory</code> parameter. Names of the mandatory parameters are separated by <code>|</code>.</p> <p>The <a href="#basic_elems_variable">Variable</a> <code>_tag_parameters</code> (associative array) will hold all given parameters and their values.</p> <p>With the ste:tagcontent tag you can execute the tags content.</p> |