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Simple Template Engine for Free Pascal

Fast engine to generate text (html, xml, or any markup) with tags/variables in Object/Free Pascal (probably delphi compatible)

Features

• Pre-assigned variables or dataset field values (no callbacks).
• OnExpandTag (global) callback.
• Per-tag callbacks.
• IF/ELSE blocks.
• FOR blocks (dataset iteration, no callback).
• Nested blocks.
• Custom tag openers/closers.
• Separated synthax parsing (prepare) and variable expansion (process) on prepared templates.
• I/O with strings/streams

Quickstart

• Download / clone source code.
• No installation required, just include path to src to your project (Other Unit Files in your Lazarus project).
• Add steParser and/or steProcessor to uses clase as needed in your unit.
• Here is a minimal example

uses steProcessor;

var
  tplProc : TSTEProcessor;
  ResultString : string;

// in this example parser is created internally
tplProc := TSTEProcessor.Create;
try
  tplProc.SetValue('var', 'your'); 
  ResultString := tplRpoc.GenerateToString('This is a template text. And here is <?var?> variable');
finally
  tplProc.Free;
end;

Templates, keywords

Minimal example

this doc is still work in progress