node-pate

About Pâté

Pâté (/ˈpæteɪ/) is a simple XPath-oriented, express-compatible template engine for Node.js

Features

• Support for simple XPath selectors
• Formatting via external lib
• Compatible with Express view engine

Installation

npm install node-pate

Dependencies

Pâté depends on libxmljs, thus compilation is needed via node-gyp

Dependencies (more info):

• Python
  • Unix: Python v2.7
  • Windows: v2.7.3
• C/C++ Compiler
  • Unix: GCC
  • Windows: Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express

Basic usage

Express example

Application:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var router = express.Router();

var pate = require('node-pate');
var formatter = require('./format_lib.js')

// view engine setup
app.engine('html', pate.__express);
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));

...

router.get('/test', function(req, res, next) {
  res.render('templates/test.html', {
    xml: '<data><row><bread name="Bretzel" price="42.56" /></row></data>',
    xpath: '/*/*',
    format_lib: formatter
  });
});

Test:

cd test-express && node bin/www

Go to: http://localhost:3000/test

Namespaces

To use a namespace put it inside the options object in the form:

ns: {
    prefix: 'URI'
}

Status

This software is still evolving. There are likely cases that it cannot handle, so file a feature request in github if there is something you think it should do.

Limitations

• No array iteration support
• Ugly logo ):

Inspirations

• https://github.com/twitter/hogan.js
• http://mustache.github.io/
• https://github.com/dnewcome/jath

License

Pâté is provided under the MIT free software license. See the file LICENSE for the full text.

Changelog

0.0.6

• Dropped "[[" & "]]" (basic function parsing)
• "Complete" spec to test all features in a single use-case