As far as XSLT goes, we're moving to it now (XML::LibXSLT) and its making our life much easier. Our designer doesnt mind learning it, esp. after showing him what it can do.
Marc Slagle
Whapps, LLC.
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 10:27, Hauck, William B. wrote:
Hi, I've been considering using a template system for an app that I'm working, but decided against it as the designers who would be putting the actual pages together (look n feel) use Adobe GoLive which does 'bad things' to non-html stuff (at least in my experience). What i've done is just use completely external html files with html-compliant comments indicating the data field. (example <!-- APPNAME_USER_FIRST_NAME -->). My application just reads in the html on startup and does a series of substition statements over the file as necessary to replace the comments with the actual data. Thus, each type of page has one base html (or html file pieces) that are merged with each other and data as necessary allowing all logic to be kept in the program.
