Re: [binarycloud-dev] xslt

[Monte O. <mo...@is...>]

This is exactly the thing I'm worried about. I don't feel that XML/XSLT
is ready for prime time use until we see GUI tools for XML/XSLT that
HTML designers can use. Maybe we can whip up something in php-gtk :-)

"Faine, Mark" wrote:
> 
> I like xslt but I do believe it seems complex and overly strict.  I once
> tried to do my resume as xml/xslt and gave up after pulling my hair out for
> 3 days trying to get the page layout right.  It wasn't that I couldn't make
> it work, I just couldn't make it work like I wanted it to work.
> 
> I got an error on your example:
> 
> Fatal error: msgtype: error in /home/mfaine/www/xslt_example/form.php on
> line 18
> 
> never seen a msgtype before.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alex black [mailto:en...@tu...]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:20 AM
> To: bin...@li...
> Subject: Re: [binarycloud-dev] xslt
> 
> > I'm interested in seeing some examples. How does this affect the use of
> > template engines, such as Smarty?
> 
> Attached.
> 
> Note that this isn't r2 stuff really, I'm putzing with some ideas.
> 
> But assuming you have sablot compiled in to php you can run this stuff.
> It's surprisingly fast.
> 
> I got _180k_ of html out of it from a 44k xml source + 5k xslt, and that
> only took 1 second.
> Most normal documents take in the thounsanths of seconds.
> 
> Sablot sort of sucks, but 4.1 will solve that.
> 
> Re: smarty:
> I'm not going to build in support for smarty, but I should explicitly
> mention that you can easily build a smarty subclass for TemplateManager.
> TemplateManager was specifically designed to take any template type, it's a
> generalized API.
> 
> But XSLT is so unbelieveably groovy, I'll be building all my code with it.
> Once you get over some of the little idiosyncracies, you realize how
> powerful xslt really is.
> 
> So the short answer is that all release binarycloud 2 modules will use XSLT
> exclusively. If someone wants to write a smarty subclass for
> TemplateManager, I'm happy to include it in the release.
> 
> _alex
> 
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