Re: [binarycloud-dev] the xsl decision

[Luke F. <fra...@tc...>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Alex Black wrote:
> > 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'm willing, but I haven't thought about how I would do it yet...any
thoughts?

I'm partial to a JSP-style on-the-fly recompilation based on file
modification dates (is that how JSP works? I'm not really sure, but I hope
you understand what I mean).

> > 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.

Definately. I'm just a paranoid delusional who thinks XML is a conspiracy
to take the web back from the masses (see: idiotic, complex, verbose
syntax, case sensitivity, etc.)

Luke