On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:57:48AM +0000, Alex McLintock wrote: > At 09:29 29/10/02, the hatter wrote: > >I wish people would stop writing tied-in templating systems, and define a > >meta-templating system so apps could easily be moved between templating > >systems. > > I'd say that XML and XSLT fits the bill.
And I'd say bwahahahaha. Seriously, though. I've experienced such enormous slowness and lack of scalability with XSLT that I couldn't really consider using it for production systems at the moment. Call me old school, but I think I want a thing which is doing some sort of transformation to some sort of output stream to, well, be written in a proper programming language, rather than go through all the hoops and massive verboseness of something like XSLT. I am a bit of an XML bigot, though. However, I've just started looking at XPFE and Mozillas framework stuff, and despite a few minor annoyances so far, it looks like it might help cure my XMLophobia a bit. Ben
