RE: [binarycloud-dev] the xsl decision

[Blake B. <Bla...@De...>]

Without simplicity for the "dumb" web developer you'll lose marketability.
Smarty has been working quite well for us, the speed is excellent.  We get
complex page renders in 0.02-0.8 seconds, with multiple DB queries.  We
never could have finished our site within deadlines without an extremely
simple template system.  Smarty has both the simplicity and the required
level of sophisication to offer a good solution to anyone, especially since
you can define your own tag delimiters and basically add anything that is
required by a specific installation.  (Smarty.addons.php is nice for this.)

There may be other superior technologies and more well-defined
specifications but the simplicity is the selling feature of a template
system IMHO.

Blake Barnett
Sr. Unix Architect
DevelopOnline.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Black [mailto:en...@tu...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 10:45 AM
To: binarycloud-dev
Subject: Re: [binarycloud-dev] the xsl decision


> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Alex Black wrote:
> 
>> hi all,
>> 
>> I've been mulling over ditching support for "parsed/block" templates from
r2
>> in favor of:
>>     -pure XSL
>>     -an XSL -> PHP makefile for speed in important areas.
> 
> By this you mean droping "smarty"-style templates, right? I'm cool with it
> as long as we can compile the XSL templates... :)

Heh, you want to write the code? :)

> I hate the XSL syntax, but it is the standard, so we web developers
> are going to have to live with it, I guess.

Well, I'm not in love with it either, but it's a hell of a lot more
efficient than (even cached) "block style" templates.

This isn't final, i.e. I need to work out some other things before I'm
convinced that XSL - only - is a good option.

_a



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