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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Jonathan Castello <twisolar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     I thought that was a compliment. :)
>
> It certainly wasn't an insult. ;)

but the syntax is certainly ugly.  this is what i actually use:

function string:template(variables)
	return (self:gsub('{%%(.-)%%}', function (key) return
tostring(variables[key] or _G[key] or '') end))
end



use:

global_footer = 'copyright for myself, inc.'

print (([[
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
	<head>
		<title>{%title%}</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div id='header'><p>{%header%}</p></div>
		<div id='main'>
			<p>{%maintext%}</p>
			<img src="{%picture_url%}" alt="{%picture_caption%}"/>
			<a src="{%exit_url%}">{%exit_text%}</a>
		</div>
		<div id='footer'><p>{%global_footer%}</p></div>
	</body>
</html>]]):template {
	title='page title',
	header= header div'',
	maintext = 'main part',
	picture_url = 'lolcats/purrr.jpg',
	picture_caption = 'lol',
	exit_url = 'somewhere/else.html',
	exit_text = 'lets go',
})


-- 
Javier