TL Documentation and Examples

The rationale for the Template Language (TL) is described in Chapter 12 of Program Generators with XML and Java. For a quick introduction to TL, visit the Hello World example below. Each example comes with a script that you can modify to run on your own system.

Examples

Hello World, a good starting point
Dictionary, an example based on Chapter 1
Play, the major example used throughout the book
TL2Java, a translator from TL to Java in TL

The Template Language

Characters
XPath Expressions
Java Expressions
Java Statements
Iteration over Node Sets
Conditional
Declarations
Declare Options
Whitespace Control

The TL APIs

ProgramWriter, a simple wrapper around PrintWriter to support TL2Java.
Simple2XML, a translator from the simple form to the XML form.
TL2Java, a translator from the XML form to Java code.
XML2simple, a translator from the XML form to the simple form.
XPathContext, a wrapper providing access to XPath
The standard DOM API.