Overview
- There is no fundamental literature on the topic of (web) templates The book shows the fundamental properties and languages of templates Two case-studies show improvement of separation of concerns and re-use by using a two-stage architecture based on templates instead of a single stage implementation Syntax-safe templates prevent cross-site scripting by means of compact grammar definitions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Atlantis Studies in Computing (ATLANTISCOMP, volume 1)
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About this book
Templates are used to generate all kinds of text, including computer code. The last decade, the use of templates gained a lot of popularity due to the increase of dynamic web applications. Templates are a tool for programmers, and implementations of template engines are most times based on practical experience rather than based on a theoretical background.
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This book reveals the mathematical background of templates and shows interesting findings for improving the practical use of templates.
First, a framework to determine the necessary computational power for the template metalanguage is presented. The template metalanguage does not need to be Turing-complete to be useful. A non-Turing-complete metalanguage enforces separation of concerns between the view and model.
Second, syntactical correctness of all languages of the templates and generated code is ensured. This includes the syntactical correctness of the template metalanguage and the output language. Third, case studies show that the achieved goals are applicable in practice. It is even shown that syntactical correctness helps to prevent cross-site scripting attacks in web applications.
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The target audience of this book is twofold. The first group exists of researcher interested in the mathematical background of templates. The second group exists of users of templates. This includes designers of template engines on one side and programmers and web designers using templates on the other side
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Code Generation with Templates
Authors: Jeroen Arnoldus, Mark van den Brand, A. Serebrenik, J.J. Brunekreef
Series Title: Atlantis Studies in Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-56-5
Publisher: Atlantis Press Paris
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: ATLANTIS PRESS 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-91216-55-8Published: 23 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-6239-052-2Published: 12 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-91216-56-5Published: 22 May 2012
Series ISSN: 2212-8557
Series E-ISSN: 2212-8565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 204
Number of Illustrations: 98 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Software Engineering, Programming Techniques, Computer Science, general
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