CompileSourceCollaboration

In this collaboration, we update template source and prepare create a TAL object to object to render the template.

Assumptions:

• Our initial assumption is that we start from an object that implements the DOMInterface?. An alternative might be to input an XML source string.
• We want to separare the implementation of TAL and TALES
• The implementation of TAL also implements METAL.

Collaboration

Objects:

PT

The page template

TI

An object that implements the TALImplementation interface.

EC

An object that implements the ExpressionCompiler interface.

DOM

an object that implements the DOM Interface.

Sequence of calls

• PT calls TI.compileFromDOM(DOM, EC)

  When TAL expressions are encountered:

  • TI calls EC.compile(src)

    where src is the expression source string.

    The compiled expression is returned and saved by the TAL implementation for later use. The value returned is opaque and could be the original source of the expression compiler doesn't do anything.

  The TAL compile method returns an opaque data structue that is used later to render output. Note that the compiled data contains any compiled expressions.