Re: [Webware-discuss] Cheetah Template vs Plain Python Class

[deelan <de...@in...>]

Huy Do wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I was just after some opinions on the suitability/necessity of using
> cheetah for templating together with a HTML DOM library. 
> 
> If my templates do not have any markup whatsover i.e just using the DOM
> library to generate/create the HTML tags, I can't see the advantages
> cheetah would offer over a normal python class. This is my
> understanding, but I if anyone can provide some more/other insight, it
> would be greatly appreciated.

i think the choice it's a matter of personal taste and your team "modus 
operandi", for example i'm rewriting my blog, draft & experimental 
design is: http://www.deelan.com/redesign/03/ i've built it using 
dreamweaver, so it makes more sense to me *not* to covert it in DOM 
calls. i don't feel very confortable in writing html code in the webware 
servlet either (writeHeader(), writeFooter(), etc.), you split and mess 
things up.

cheetah comes handy if you have to pass some markup intensive pages to 
the  "HTML guys" in your team... obviously they are used to work in 
htmlkit/dreamweaver/whatever and they understand only HTML, in this case 
cheetah it's pretty  understandable to them too. i can't say the same 
for pure python DOM  calls. oh, by the way you can mix the two 
techniques together.

there's a good intro about the template-approach here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/user-guide.html

cheetah is pretty close to velocity on some aspects, hence some key 
ideas  still apply.

later,
deelan