[Templates] Dual pass template processing

Stuart Johnston saj at thecommune.net
Tue Jan 29 20:53:02 GMT 2008


Mark Knoop wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am new to TT and haven't read the book yet so sorry if this is a daft 
> question.
> 
> I have been using my own template system (how predictable) for generating 
> XHTML pages but am considering whether to start using TT. One of the 
> features of my system is that one set of tags gets processed when the site 
> is built ie the pages are prerendered to an extent. The rest of the tags 
> then get processed at request time by my CGI script.
> 
> I guess if I used TT variables I could have all the tags processed first 
> time round, with some just being replaced by new ones to be processed at 
> request time but is there a smarter way to do this? Or am I worrying about 
> nothing?

I believe what you are looking for is the TAG_STYLE: 
http://tt2.org/docs/manual/Config.html#section_TAG_STYLE



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