Render fragments

[garuse]

I found a use case that does not seem to be supported by sprae: fragments rendering.

I want to render two table rows at a time, in a loop:

<template :ref="row">
  <tr><td>col1</td><td>col2</td></tr>
  <tr><td :text="data"></td></tr>
</template>

I cannot use a single tag as parent because it will break the table structure, so I would like something similar with Alpine:

<template x-for="post in posts">
  <h2 x-text="post.title"></h2>
</template>

Is it possible to implement something like this?

<template :each="i in 3" :ref="row" :with="{data: rowdata}"></template>

Thank you!

[dy]

Thanks for the good use-case. It must be possible. This and also easy declaring components like <template :define=my-elem'>...</template> would give another sense to sprae - template directives. Also that would allow <template :if=xxx>...</template>.

I have to meditate on that. Not sure what meaning <template> should have - is that immediate or for definitions? Is that fragment or custom element? Gotta research known use-cases. It seems like mixed concerns for now.

[dy]

It seems from declarative shadow dom and declarative custom elements template is used more like fragment boundary, rather than definition.

Also <template :if=xxx looks like <template directive=if expression=xxx from template-instsntiation proposal, which assumes templates within templates - it is used as fragment there as well.

[dy]

Ok, done in v9.