Comments on: Velocity whitespace handling is not as written http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2003/10/29/velocity-whitespace-handling-is-not-as-written/ Kevin Dangoor on Software Development Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:13:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tom http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2003/10/29/velocity-whitespace-handling-is-not-as-written/#comment-209862 Tom Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:41:49 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/wordpress/?p=728#comment-209862 Wow, after 5 years the document still read like this. Thank god for this page, as the newline was screwing things up for me! Wow, after 5 years the document still read like this. Thank god for this page, as the newline was screwing things up for me!

]]> By: Bae http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2003/10/29/velocity-whitespace-handling-is-not-as-written/#comment-280 Bae Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/wordpress/?p=728#comment-280 BEWARE OF DRAGONS! As an ugly hack you can use the Velocity line comment syntax "##" to workaround this whitespace problem. The whitespace after #if seems to be ignored so you can write constructs like this: #macro( testMacro ) #if ( ) This output will not have any leading whitespace, nor trailing whitespace. Because the line is terminated via the line comment## #else Without the line comment, this line has an extra new line which wrecks your template. #end #end Enjoy BEWARE OF DRAGONS!

As an ugly hack you can use the Velocity line comment syntax “##” to workaround this whitespace problem.

The whitespace after #if seems to be ignored so you can write constructs like this:

#macro( testMacro )
#if ( )
This output will not have any leading whitespace, nor trailing whitespace. Because the line is terminated via the line comment##
#else
Without the line comment, this line has an extra new line which wrecks your template.
#end
#end

Enjoy

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