RE: [binarycloud-dev] the xsl decision

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

No, admittedly I only know what the acronym means.  I do know it has been
said to be overly complex.  And quite frustrating to work with.  People say
the same things of linux but I have no problems there.  So perhaps it
requires a bit more investigation on my part.  

I think using XSL for other capabilities and still allowing people to have a
simple template system is a good solution.  Though it probably means twice
(or more) as much work for you.

* Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Black [mailto:en...@tu...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:27 AM
To: binarycloud-dev
Subject: Re: [binarycloud-dev] the xsl decision


> 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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