allow compilation of static html instead of gsp

[divideby0]

firstly, this plugin is great. i've used it quite heavily over the last couple weeks and i'm really loving haml. however, i do have one request:

in my app, i'm making use of jquery templates. to embed a client-side bound variable in a jquery template, i do something like this:

<span><%= someVariableName %></span>

or

<span>${someVariableName}</span>

Unfortunately, both of these markups are overloaded by JSP and GSP server-side bindings. So, I'd like to option to compile my haml as a simple static html file instead, bypassing the whole GSP rendering phase.

Alternatively, if you have any suggestions on how I might escape the markup so that its passed through directly to the browser, that would also solve my immediate use case.

[raymyers]

Hmm, yeah GSPs make it a bit hard to escape those characters. You might try something like this:

<span><%= '${someVariableName}' %></span>

Or, from Haml

%span= '${someVariableName}'

Note the single quotes for the string literal prevent groovy interpolation.

I don't have a Grails project handy at the moment; let me know if that works.

Cheers!