Hi,
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I'll be adding a function to
And then you'll be adding a function to..., and then possibly a function to..., and then you'll need it to...
Pretty soon, you will have spent hundreds of hours developing a templating system that you throw away in favor of one of the tried and true templating systems that are available.
Of course I may be wrong. Your needs may be very simple, and may not change over time.
But you may want to ask around on this list to see how many folks have rolled their own templating system and thrown it away. Of course there are folks on this list who haven't thrown theirs away, and have worked hard to make them robust, stable and performant. Thats why we take advantage of their work ;-)
bill
-- Douglas
-----Original Message----- From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 2003-07-23 4:00 AM To: Patrick Galbraith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: templating system opinions (axkit?) On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote:
Anyone on this list use AxKit? I'm curious how it pans out.
I like the idea of XSLT/XML, though I find myself trying to read between the lines of hype vs. something that's actually very useful. I don't know, so I don't have any opinions. I do know I'd like to use XSLT/XML so as to have a project to use it for, hence learn it.
I'm just about to roll out a site using AxKit that has to do about 3 million hits/day out of the box.
The main reason I like AxKit is it prevents me from screwing up and creating XSS bugs, because everything has to be well formed. I almost never have to use html or URL encode/decode functions - I just write straight perl code.
I barely notice that I'm using XML.
It's also worth noting that XSLT is a portable skill, with lots of great offline tools.
It's also worth saying: never listen to hype. Evaluate solutions based on your criteria. AxKit matches mine but it doesn't mean it will match yours.
Matt.
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