<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title> WebMake: Documentation: The <for> Tag </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta name="generator" content="WebMake/2.3" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; line-height: 110%; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; } p, table, td, th { font-family: verdana,lucida,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 110%; } pre { margin-left: 3%; white-space: pre; } code, samp, pre, p pre { font-family: "lucida console", "Courier New", courier, "fixed-width", monospace; font-weight: bold; } H1 { font-size: 150%; font-family: Garamond, "Book Antiqua",Times,serif; background: #FFCC66; text-align: center; padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; line-height: 120%; } H2 { font-size: 125%; font-family: Garamond, "Book Antiqua",Times,serif; background: #FFDD77; text-align: center; padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; line-height: 100%; } H3 { font-size: 100%; font-family: Garamond, "Book Antiqua",Times,serif; background: #FFEE88; text-align: center; padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; } H4 { font-size: 75%; font-family: Garamond, "Book Antiqua",Times,serif; } H5 { font-size: 50%; font-family: Garamond, "Book Antiqua",Times,serif; } H6 { font-size: 25%; font-family: Garamond, "Book Antiqua",Times,serif; } A:link { font-weight: bold; color: #004000; text-decoration: underline; } A:visited { font-weight: bold; color: #008000; text-decoration: underline; } A:active { font-weight: bold; color: #800000; text-decoration: underline; } dt { font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; } dd { padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; } </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#3300cc" vlink="#660066"> <!-- font tag for compat with non-CSS browsers --> <font face="lucida,verdana,sans-serif"> <div align="center"> <img src="images/WebMakeTitle.png" alt="WebMake" width="500" height="122" /> </div> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <strong><a href="http://webmake.taint.org/">WebMake</a> Documentation</strong> (version 2.3) </td> <td valign="top"> <div align="right"> [ <a href="datasources.html">Back</a> | <a href="out.html">Forward</a> | <a href="index.html">Index</a> | <a href="allinone.html">All In One</a> ] </div> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- yes, it's that Mozilla black-border code again ;) --> <!-- stolen from www.mozilla.org via rc3.org --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#aaaaaa"> <table border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" width="100%"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"> <table border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <h1>The <for> Tag</h1><p> The <for> tag provides a quick way to iterate through a list of items. </p> <p> It requires two attributes, <em>name</em> and <em>values</em>; the content item named <em>name</em> is set to each space-separated value in the <em>values</em> string, and the text inside the block is processed. </p> <a name="Supported_Attributes" id="Supported_Attributes"><h2>Supported Attributes</h2></a><dl> <dt> <em>name</em> </dt> <dd> The name of the variable which will be set to each value in the <em>values</em> list in turn (if you know your comp-sci lingo, the iterator). </dd> <dt> <em>values</em> </dt> <dd> A space-separated list of values which is iterated through. </dd> <dt> <em>namesubst</em> </dt> <dd> A Perl s/// substitution; each value in the <em>values</em> list will be processed by this, if set. </dd> </dl> <p> Variable references to <strong>${<em>name</em>}</strong> are processed immediately, so you can use this variable inside another variable reference, like this: <code>${all_${name}_text}</code> . </p> <a name="Example" id="Example"><h2>Example</h2></a><p> Here's an example, taken from my own <a href="http://jmason.org/">home site</a>: </p> <p> <!--etsafe--> <pre> <!-- Create output for files in top dir --> <for name="out" values="index contact work nonwork home"> <out file="${out}.html" name="${out}"> ${jmason_template} </out> </for> </pre><!--/etsafe--> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <strong><a href="http://webmake.taint.org/">WebMake</a> Documentation</strong> (version 2.3) </td> <td valign="top"> <div align="right"> [ <a href="datasources.html">Back</a> | <a href="out.html">Forward</a> | <a href="index.html">Index</a> | <a href="allinone.html">All In One</a> ] </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div align="right"> <a href="http://webmake.taint.org/"> <img src="images/BuiltWithWebMake.png" alt="Built With WebMake" border="0" width="88" height="31" /></a> </div> </font> </body> </html>