Inline nested jQuery template — {{tmpl}}

[abernier]

Hi,

$.tmpl('<div>Hello <ul>{{tmpl(persons) "<li>${name}</li>"}}</ul></div>', {persons: [
    {name: 'Tom'},
    {name: 'Fred'}
]}).appendTo('body');

throws a SyntaxError

Whereas:

$.tmpl('<div>Hello <ul>{{tmpl(persons) "<li>$"+"{name}</li>"}}</ul></div>', {persons: [
    {name: 'Tom'},
    {name: 'Fred'}
]}).appendTo('body');

works...

Seems jQuery template get confused about parsing the {{tmpl string.

Can it be considered as a bug?

Thank you.

[BorisMoore]

You can't nest tags, so you can't do {{foo ...{{blah }} }}, nor can you do {{foo ... ${x} ..}}. It is more a limitation of the parser than a bug. You can do tricks like "$" + "{" to get around that limitation, as you did above. To support that would be too expensive in extra parsing code...