Re: ePerl within <xtable> tags

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:15:06PM +0100, Colin Reveley wrote:
> hi there. I'm getting the following error, which I can't figure out.
> 
> I can embed perl code fine, but if I try to embed some code inside
> <xtable> tags I get an 
> error (I am using wml 2.0.7 on a SuSE linux system 7.1, glibc 2.2-7)
> 
> #!wml
> #use wml::fmt::xtable
> 
> <xtable>
> <:
> print "hello\n";
> :> 
> </xtable>
> 
> gives the error:
> 
> ePerl:Error: Perl parsing error (interpreter rc=255)
>  
> ---- Contents of STDERR channel: ---------
> Can't find string terminator "EPERL_EOT" anywhere before EOF at
> /tmp/wml.921.tmp1.wml line 157.
> ------------------------------------------
> ** WML:Break: Error in Pass 3 (rc=74).      
> 
> 
> can you help at all?

Hi Colin,

the problem here is that <xtable> expands into ePerl commands, which
cannot be nested. You should read wml_macros(7), then write

  #use wml::std::tags
  #use wml::fmt::xtable
  <xtable>
  (1,1)
    <perl>
      <perl:print: "hello\n">
    </perl> 
  </xtable>

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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