Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

[brian moseley]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> Unusual bunch :-)

don't think so. xslt is overly verbose and complicated, and
its model is the inverse of the standard html page. whereas
a nice little mason page with some simple embedded perl
looks enough like what everybody's used to, to not be big,
scary and new.

> Or are you talking about XSLT vs Perl? If so then I'd
> agree - XSLT is mightily scary compared to a simple HTML
> template scheme. But infinitely more powerful.

*raises eyebrow*

please expand on that last comment.