Fins provides a templating framework for use in the construction of your View. Structured so that you can use any Pike-ready templating system, a number of built in methods enable you to return a processed template as a response to a controller event.

The components of the templating system include:

Fins.Template.Template

This class provides the definition for all Fins compatible template systems. Use this data type anywhere you use a template.

Fins.Template.get_template(program templateType, string templatename)

This method will get a Template.Template object of the type templateType, using the template file templatename. All templates live in the appname/templates directory. The class templateType you provide should correspond to the markup format present in the template "templatename". Fins caches the template file in order to speed response time.

Fins.Template.Simple

Fins includes a simple templating system. This class (and objects created from it) use the simple template markup format described in the document SimpleTemplate.txt.

Fins.Template.XSLT

Fins can also render output data based on an XSLT template. See the document XSLTTemplate.txt for additional details.

Fins.Response.set_template(Fins.Template.Template t, Fins.Template.TemplateData d)

Use this method to set the response to the current request to be the template, which will be rendered with data provided.