This is the templating system used by pandoc. It was formerly be a module in pandoc. It has been split off to make it easier to use independently.
Example:
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} import Data.Text import Data.Aeson import Text.DocTemplates data Employee = Employee { firstName :: String , lastName :: String , salary :: Maybe Int } instance ToJSON Employee where toJSON e = object [ "name" .= object [ "first" .= firstName e , "last" .= lastName e ] , "salary" .= salary e ] template :: Text template = "$for(employee)$Hi, $employee.name.first$. $if(employee.salary)$You make $employee.salary$.$else$No salary data.$endif$$sep$\n$endfor$" main = case compileTemplate template of Left e -> error e Right t -> putStrLn $ renderTemplate t $ object ["employee" .= [ Employee "John" "Doe" Nothing , Employee "Omar" "Smith" (Just 30000) , Employee "Sara" "Chen" (Just 60000) ] ]
A slot for an interpolated variable is a variable name surrounded
by dollar signs. To include a literal $
in your template, use
$$
. Variable names must begin with a letter and can contain letters,
numbers, _
, -
, and .
.
The values of variables are determined by a JSON object that is
passed as a parameter to renderTemplate
. So, for example,
title
will return the value of the title
field, and
employee.salary
will return the value of the salary
field
of the object that is the value of the employee
field.
The value of a variable will be indented to the same level as the variable.
A conditional begins with $if(variable_name)$
and ends with $endif$
.
It may optionally contain an $else$
section. The if section is
used if variable_name
has a non-null value, otherwise the else section
is used.
Conditional keywords should not be indented, or unexpected spacing problems may occur.
The $for$
keyword can be used to iterate over an array. If
the value of the associated variable is not an array, a single
iteration will be performed on its value.
You may optionally specify separators using $sep$
, as in the
example above.
Anything between the sequence $--
and the end of the line
will be treated as a comment.