I am getting a TemplateSyntaxError: unexpected char u'#' error, when I include a simple Mustache template in my HTML file being served by Python Google App Engine server.
The mustache template that I want to include is:
{{#item}} {{name}} {{/item}}
My HTML file looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/mustache-template" id="myTemplate">
{{#item}}{{name}}{{/item}}
</script>
</head>
</html>
Since, the template is wrapped around a script tag with type=text/mustache-template, shouldn't the server just ignore it?
I am unable to comprehend, why am I getting the TemplateSyntaxError and what should I do to get rid of it. Anyone has any ideas? Thanks!
You don't say so, but I guess you are using either Django or Jinja2 templates on the server side. In which case, no they wouldn't ignore content inside a mustache script tag: for one thing, they know nothing about mustache, and secondly it's fairly common practice to actually put server-side template tags inside Javascript, for instance to provide initial values for functions.
In Django versions greater than 1.5, you can wrap your mustache tags with the
{% verbatim %}...{% endverbatim %}tag to prevent server-side evaluation. Jinja2's equivalent is{% raw %}...{% endraw %}.