Rendering in a comment

[Jeff Schnitzer]

I want to render some data in an HTML comment, visible when I look at
the page but otherwise not visible to the user. It's mostly for
debugging "in the real world". I try like this:

<!-- ${data} -->

However, Cambridge renders this as-is. If I remove the comments,
Cambridge renders the expression.

Is it not possible to render comments?

Thanks,
Jeff

[Erdinc Yilmazel]

Hmm, I think this isn't possible as of now. Cambridge parser parses comments differently and it doesn't look for expressions inside comments. The whole comment block is a separate node in the parse tree. I will look into this and see if it can be implemented easily.

Erdinc

[Matthew Jaggard]

Hi Erdinc,

   Could this be a new syntax - it would be good to also have the ability to have non-parsed comments as exist currently. It might also be good while you're there to create non-rendered comments (ie. comments for the next editor of the template that are not sent to the browser).

Thanks,

Mat.

[Erdinc Yilmazel]

Non rendered comments are already there. Just use <!--$    -->.