SharpTemplate.NET

Project Description

SharpTemplate.NET is a lightweight general-purpose template engine for .NET 2.0. It is very easy to use, yet very powerful. It supports a pluggable syntax, full C# compliant expression parser, caching and macros.

Features

• Template syntax is fully customizable (includes syntaxes for Velocity, ProMesh.NET)
• Loops (foreach)
• Conditionals (if - elseif - else)
• Late-bound C# expression evaluation (using LazyParser.NET, which is part of this project)
• Light-weight (less than 80KB)

Example of a template (using Velocity syntax):

 
<table>
#foreach ($product in $Products)
   <tr><td>$product.Name</td>
   #if ($product.Stock > 0)
      <td>In stock</td>
   #else
     <td>Backordered</td>
   #end
  </tr>
#end
</table>
 

The same template in "ProMesh.NET" syntax:

 
<table>
<!--$[foreach product in Products]-->
   <tr><td>$[product.Name]</td>
   <!--$[if product.Stock > 0]-->
      <td>In stock</td>
   <!--$[else]-->
     <td>Backordered</td>
   <!--$[endif]-->
  </tr>
<!--$[endfor]-->
</table>
 

The code to parse and render the template:

SharpTemplate template = new SharpTemplate<Velocity>();
 
ParserContext data = new CSharpContext();
 
data["Products"] = GetOrders();
 
string renderedFile = template.RenderFile("template.htm" , data);