Re: [binarycloud-dev] the xsl decision

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

> I'm willing, but I haven't thought about how I would do it yet...any
> thoughts?

I'll include detailed specs in the next revision of the r2 docs.

Anyway, the short answer is I have a very clear idea of how it would work.

> 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 like this method as well, it's clean and allows updates simply.

>>> 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.)

heh :)

From working with it, I'm pretty happy with the whole "cloud" (pardon the
expression) of apps, _especially_ Xpath which I think is very well done.

_a


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