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Converting Templates

Legacy documents are the bane of any software migration. The Velocity Team has tried to ensure that existing templates can be converted for use within Velocity in as painless a manner as possible.

Currently there is only a WebMacro to Velocity template converter, but there are plans for a Tea to Velocity template converter, and a FreeMarker to Velocity template converter.


WebMacro to Velocity Template Converter

The convert-wm.sh script in the convert directory converts a single WebMacro template (*.wm) to a Velocity template (*.vm), or converts an entire directory structure of WebMacro templates to Velocity templates.

The convert-wm.sh script can convert a single WebMacro template to a Velocity template.

./convert-wm.sh template.wm

This will produce a single Velocity template named template.vm from the WebMacro template template.wm. The original WebMacro template will be preserved.

To convert an entire directory structure of WebMacro templates using the convert-wm.sh script, simply include the directory name instead of the template name, as indicated below.

./convert-wm.sh templates

This will produce a directory structure of templates named templates/[template].vm. The original WebMacro templates will be preserved during the conversion process.



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