Handling recursion

[lcsqlpete]

I'm working on a family tree project which currently builds it's html with a recursive php function. It starts with the oldest ancestor and processes family units, meaning husband/wife/children. Each child within a family unit could have it's own family unit and so on to an unknown depth.

The information for each individual is fixed and could be expressed as a Mustache template but I can't figure out how to handle the recursive and nesting aspects of the tree.

Has anyone come across this situation and solved it? It could apply to iother examples like bill-of-materials or org charts.

Thanks,
Pete

[DeeHants]

Recursive partials:

Partials begin with a greater than sign, like {{> box}}.
Partials are rendered at runtime (as opposed to compile time), so recursive partials are possible. Just avoid infinite loops.
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In this way you may want to think of partials as includes, imports, template expansion, nested templates, or subtemplates, even though those aren't literally the case here.