Templates

Introduction

Kauri has its own template engine. It has the usual things you can expect from a template engine, both towards the user as towards the developer (e.g. template pre-compilation).

Unique about Kauri's template engine is that it is XML-based, which has the advantage of providing guaranteed XML/HTML well-formed output, avoidance of HTML-injection, performant XML-pipeline processing of the template output, and abstraction of some HTML serialization rules (e.g. close tag required for <script>).

The default expression language is EL, as implemented by JUEL. For those cases where you need to do something more powerful, you can use Groovy.

The Kauri template engine is a stand-alone library, which can be easily used in other projects without pulling in all of Kauri.

Template features

The Kauri template engine is still under construction, so not all expected features are already implemented. You can get an overview of the features here, including their current state and an indication of the importance we have given it. Using our mailinglist or issue tracker, you are invited to do feature requests in case we have missed something, or convince us that we should give higher priority to a certain feature. Contributions are also welcome.