Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT model not "natural"? [was Re: [ANN] FreeMarker 2.3 as an alternative to XSLT] From: "Robert Koberg" <rob@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:52:16 -0700 |
Hi, I find quit a few people are scared off by XSL, but I don't see the benefits of Freemarker: <if session.msg><call draw_tooltip()> <else> </if> <call draw_icon_rows("5")> First, you still have what most people complain about - the angle brackets. Second, it is not close to being XML so you can't check for well-formedness or validity. We use HSphere site hosting software (soon to change...). They wrote their control panel templates in Freemarker. The language itself was not hard to pick up but the templates were written without understanding of how to separate content/data from presentation. It made trying to modify the templates ridiculously more difficult then it should have been. Perhaps simpler templating languages can be learned faster, but they lead to sloppy work that is next to impossible to reuse. I guess that will be there in any 'templating' language, but the more you stick with XSL the more you are steered toward the ideal - separation of concerns. To sum up, yes, XSL is more difficult for many people to pick up naturally, but worth the effort. Best, -Rob XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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