Re: [binarycloud-dev] the xsl decision

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> 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

Which is why I have note made a decision to ditch parsed templates. However,
with XSL, you gain a _huge_ range of capabilities that are not available
from parsed templates. (think on the fly PDFs, etc)

> 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.

Have you used XSL?


_alex


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