Re: [OT] About XML and Petal (was Re: templating system opinions (axkit?))

2003-07-30 Thread Eric Cholet
Le lundi, 28 juil 2003, à 21:27 Europe/Paris, Jean-Michel Hiver a écrit : Also, with TT you have to use the filter 'html' to XML encode your variables. Petal does it by default, and you need to use the TALES 'structure' keyword to NOT encode. You don't *have* to use the 'html' filter in TT. I

[OT] About XML and Petal (was Re: templating system opinions (axkit?))

2003-07-28 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
of templating system, you might have something like: div dir=!--VAR language_dir -- !--VAR some_content-- /div Which is completely impossible to validate and IMHO very hard to read. With Petal you just start with a mockup: div dir=ltr Hello, World /div And then you add TAL

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-28 Thread Matt Sergeant
of element-name-and-attributes. The language becomes contrived and clumsy as a result of trying to satisfy a purity of design. This I can agree with, having written my own templating system because I didn't like XSLT's idea of being written in XML :-) But I now use XSLT, because it has other benefits

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-28 Thread Andy Wardley
Matt Sergeant wrote: At it's core, XML is a very elegant syntax for defining a rich dataset of nodes It's a syntax for defining a dataset of nodes that all conform to XML's ideas about what a dataset of nodes looks like. I'm not convinced about rich or elegant. :-) and you find

Re: [OT] About XML and Petal (was Re: templating system opinions (axkit?))

2003-07-28 Thread Andy Wardley
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: something like: div dir=!--VAR language_dir -- !--VAR some_content-- /div Which is completely impossible to validate and IMHO very hard to read. Agreed. The following is easier to read, IMHO, and is also valid XML markup. div dir=[% language_dir %] [%

Re: [OT] About XML and Petal (was Re: templating system opinions(axkit?))

2003-07-28 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
If you like a more straightforward approach, TT also lets you write: div dir=$language_dir $some_content /div See, I knew there would be something that we would agree on! :-) :) But at the risk of breaking compatibility with some validators / XML tools / etc. It

Re: [OT] About XML and Petal (was Re: templating system opinions (axkit?))

2003-07-28 Thread Kyle Dawkins
I suggest y'all check out Tapestry http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry to see a really nice happy medium. It uses a templating language similar to TAL but much more flexible (and useful, in my mind) than rigid XML. All its templates can be used in things like Dreamweaver and GoLive with

Re: [OT] About XML and Petal (was Re: templating system opinions(axkit?))

2003-07-28 Thread Aleksandr Guidrevitch
Hi, All May be I'm a bit late here... But is there any sence in artifical XML templating languages since there is XSLT ? Just wonder whether there are cons other than long learning curve and performance issues ? Alex Gidrevich

Re: [OT] About XML and Petal (was Re: templating system opinions(axkit?))

2003-07-28 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Aleksandr Guidrevitch wrote: May be I'm a bit late here... But is there any sence in artifical XML templating languages since there is XSLT ? Just wonder whether there are cons other than long learning curve and performance issues ? Well, in the case of just TAL/Petal,

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-24 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
their fave templating system... I guess I can't resist: I have to jump in and defend my baby :) So why is Petal better than anything else? First of all, it is an implementation of TAL. TAL is a very clever open specification for WYSIWYG-friendly templates written by the Zope people. TAL has three

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-24 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
I know everybody's defending their fave templating system... I guess I can't resist: I have to jump in and defend my baby :) So why is Petal better than anything else? Oops, I got a bit carried away... As a side note, Petal is probably not better than anything else, but different. If you're

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-24 Thread Jeff AA
- Original Message - From: Jean-Michel Hiver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:46 PM First of all, it is an implementation of TAL. TAL is a very clever open specification for WYSIWYG-friendly templates written by the Zope people. Do you have

RE: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-24 Thread Kitch, David
Do you have a URL for further reading on TAL? I found one: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/TAL Regards, Kitch

RE: Templating system opinions (CGI::Application in connection with either HTML::Template or Template::Toolkit)

2003-07-24 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
application state management. CGI::Application doesn't try to bolt on anything else. The developer can choose their favorite modules for templating system, database interface, object persistence, session management, etc. CGI-App is specifically made to allow developers to choose from the best

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-24 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
First of all, it is an implementation of TAL. TAL is a very clever open specification for WYSIWYG-friendly templates written by the Zope people. Do you have a URL for further reading on TAL? Yep. http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/TAL Petal has an active community and a

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
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

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?) [OT]

2003-07-23 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi Matt, On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Matt Sergeant wrote: The main reason I like AxKit is it prevents me from screwing up [snip] I just write straight perl code. I barely notice that I'm using XML. Can you give us in a couple of sentences your take on the state of XML in general and AxKit in

RE: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-23 Thread Hauck, William B.
: [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

RE: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-23 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Hauck, William B. wrote: 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

RE: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-23 Thread FFabrizio
Change that to: !-- TMPL_VAR APPNAME_USER_FIRST_NAME -- You mean TMPL_VAR APPNAME_USER_FIRST_NAME don't you? Or did I miss the secret stealth hide-your-tags-in-html-comments feature? :-) -Fran

RE: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-23 Thread Marc Slagle
What you have created for your own use is almost exactly what HTML::Template does. We have used it for a year without any major problems between us and the HTML designer. Its fast and supports loops and if statements. Its probably worth your while to check it out. As far as XSLT goes, we're

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-23 Thread Douglas Hunter
Hauck, William B. wrote: Hi, snip / 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

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-23 Thread Perrin Harkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Change that to: !-- TMPL_VAR APPNAME_USER_FIRST_NAME -- You mean TMPL_VAR APPNAME_USER_FIRST_NAME don't you? Or did I miss the secret stealth hide-your-tags-in-html-comments feature? :-) You missed it:

Templating system opinions (CGI::Application in connection with either HTML::Template or Template::Toolkit)

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Baker
I'm curious as to why the combination of CGI::Application and HTML::Template hasn't taken off ... CGI::Application seems to allow a software developer to create an entire CGI app that can be stored and distributed as a module on CPAN, but only a couple such app/modules have been so added.

RE: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-23 Thread FFabrizio
You missed it: http://search.cpan.org/author/SAMTREGAR/HTML-Template-2.6/Temp late.pm#NOTES Ah. When the section begins If you're a fanatic about valid HTML it becomes more clear why I missed that. :-) Thanks, Fran

Re: Templating system opinions (CGI::Application in connection with either HTML::Template or Template::Toolkit)

2003-07-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Dave == Dave Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave I'm curious as to why the combination of CGI::Application and Dave HTML::Template hasn't taken off ... CGI::Application seems to allow a Dave software developer to create an entire CGI app that can be stored and Dave distributed as a module on

Re: Templating system opinions (CGI::Application in connection with either HTML::Template or Template::Toolkit)

2003-07-23 Thread Eric
Hi, That was really interesting to look at. OpenInteract is really impressive. I guess there is always a cost to having a big do it all type of system. That is what made me avoid Mason, it just blew my head off for complexity. Now it is true, I am looking for a bit more than what

Re: Templating system opinions (CGI::Application in connection witheither HTML::Template or Template::Toolkit)

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Eric wrote: do it all type of system. That is what made me avoid Mason, it just blew my head off for complexity. Now it is true, I am looking for a bit more than There's a fine book about it. www.masonbook.com Just an unbiased opinion ;) -dave

Re: Templating system opinions (CGI::Application in connection witheither HTML::Template or Template::Toolkit)

2003-07-23 Thread Chris Winters
Eric wrote: That was really interesting to look at. OpenInteract is really impressive. I guess there is always a cost to having a big do it all type of system. That is what made me avoid Mason, it just blew my head off for complexity. Now it is true, I am looking for a bit more than what

Re: Templating system opinions (CGI::Application in connection witheither HTML::Template or Template::Toolkit)

2003-07-23 Thread Chris Winters
Dave Rolsky wrote: There's a fine book about it. www.masonbook.com Just an unbiased opinion ;) Hey, I'd be happy to write a book about OpenInteract ;-) Chris -- Chris Winters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.

RE: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-22 Thread csebe
Hi Jesse, -Original Message- From: Jesse Erlbaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 8:50 PM To: 'Patrick Galbraith' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: templating system opinions (axkit?) Hi Patrick -- I like the idea of XSLT/XML, though I find myself trying

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-22 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.07.21 17:04 -0500 ) Nigel Hamilton: At Turbo10 we went for a strict 'no functional elements' in the template approach. this seems like you're placing a technical limit on your solution. why wouldn't you use the technologies that will solve your problem the best instead of constraining

RE: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Cameron B. Prince
Just wondering what the best templating system is to use and/or learn. Hi, I'm just wondering why no one recommended Embperl. Like Mason, it's more than a templating system, but I find it's inheritance features great. I'm using it for a personal project and haven't really checked it's

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Monday, Jul 21, 2003, at 02:23 Europe/London, Dave Rolsky wrote: All of this said, what is the most commonly used system out there? The biggest players are Mason and Template Toolkit, judging from big companies that have used them, as well as job posting. HTML::Template, Embperl, and

RE: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hi Dave -- Dave Rolsky writes: Mason isn't fast. It is, however, fast enough for high volume sites - that I will assert. Sure, amazon.com among them. Amazon.com uses Mason? Why have I not heard of this before? -Jesse-

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Drew Taylor
Jesse Erlbaum wrote: Dave Rolsky writes: Sure, amazon.com among them. Amazon.com uses Mason? Why have I not heard of this before? I personally have not seen an official announcement, but if you look at all their postings on jobs.perl.org you'll notice that nearly every one of them mentions

RE: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread FFabrizio
In a good OO system with objects representing the data model, I found it exhausting to use H::T when I could just to this in TT: [% user.name %] Am I just being stupid, or are there better ways of doing these things in H::T? I'm a little late to the dance but I generally

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Barry Hoggard
I wanted to add that you *can* use Mason for MVC type programming. I do that on my current big project, www.better-investing.org, in the admin areas. I have a controller index.html page which chooses what component to run based on a run mode, just like CGI::Application, but then gives me all

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: (you can of course use XSLT in AxKit :-) And don't forget that, with AxKit, you can use Apache::ASP, Mason, or any Apache::Filter-aware handler to provide content for AxKit to transform and TT2 as a transformational language. Oh, and there's XPathScript, too, which,

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Drew Taylor wrote: I personally have not seen an official announcement, but if you look at all their postings on jobs.perl.org you'll notice that nearly every one of them mentions Mason. I'm sure Dave will have more to say on the subject... :-) Not too much more. But

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Patrick Galbraith
I'm guessing they use it for IMDB, although they may have other projects as well that use it. I do know that their core app is C++/apache, with some sort of perl glue to talk to the app. Nice that they are such an apache/perl/OS house considering they're here in Seattle, mere miles from

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-21 Thread Patrick Galbraith
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

RE: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-21 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
it. It's mostly hype in my experience. And not even very useful hype, like Java or PHP, which are actually real things which people might want to use. XSLT seems to be XML geeks' answer to CSS+templating. As if CSS wasn't very successful, as if the world needed another templating system, XSLT seems

[OT] XSLT [Formerly: templating system opinions (axkit?)]

2003-07-21 Thread sxm124
I recently found one good use for not bashing XSLT right away. We were using JUnit and JUnitReport to do unit testing and reporting for our java using the Ant build tool. JUnit runs tests and can generate the output to xml. JUnitReport uses xslt to transform them to websites. I simply

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: I'm guessing they use it for IMDB, although they may have other projects as well that use it. I do know that their core app is C++/apache, with some sort of perl glue to talk to the app. I believe IMDB uses mod_perl, but I don't know about Mason.

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-21 Thread Douglas Hunter
Jesse Erlbaum wrote: Hi Patrick -- 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,

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Sam Tregar
::Template, which makes it the fastest templating system by a large margin. -sam

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Sam Tregar wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: OTOH, if you were to try to replicate some of Mason's more powerful features with H::T, like autohandlers, inheritance, etc., then I'm sure that'd bring H::T's speed down to Mason's level ;) I wouldn't be too

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-21 Thread Daisuke Maki
Anyone on this list use AxKit? I'm curious how it pans out. I used it for http://www.nikki-site.com (sorry, Japanese-only site). This site uses exactly 4 pure-mod_perl handlers, and everything else eventually goes through AxKit (excuse the site design, as far as development goes that is a

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-21 Thread James G Smith
needed another templating system, XSLT seems to have been invented to take the creative work of designing web sites out of the hands of HTML designers, and put it in the hands of XPath programmers. You know. Programmers who are really good at both creative design and communicating with human beings

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:22, Kip Hampton wrote: And don't forget that, with AxKit, you can use Apache::ASP, Mason, or any Apache::Filter-aware handler to provide content for AxKit to transform and TT2 as a transformational language. Oh, and there's XPathScript, too, which, although its only

Re: templating system opinions (axkit?)

2003-07-21 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:14, Patrick Galbraith wrote: I get so tired of Java types talking about how perl is just a scripting language.. it's not an application platform/server like Dynamo/WebSpere/insert $$$ java non-OS app here. I even tried to crack a particular Orielly java book and was

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Sam Tregar
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Sam Tregar wrote: I wouldn't be too sure. I implemented a lot of that stuff to add HTML::Template support to Bricolage and it's still much faster than Mason. A lot as in _all_ of it, or a lot as in autohandlers and

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Kip Hampton
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:22, Kip Hampton wrote: Why choose one when you can have 'em all? :-) Well, no offense to AxKit, but having multiple templating systems in a single project is something that I specifically work to avoid. It complicates things and typically hurts

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Chris Winters
Perrin Harkins wrote: The one thing about TT was that I don't know if I really liked how it had a different syntax than perl. Plus, as far as performance, we did some specific coding to make it faster for Slash so our templates would be in the DB. That's an anti-optimization. Filesystems are

RE: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Just wondering what the best templating system is to use and/or learn. I'm just wondering why no one recommended Embperl. Like Mason, it's more than a templating system, but I find it's inheritance features great. I too have found template inheritance to be pretty important - especially

RE: templating system opinions

2003-07-20 Thread Cameron B. Prince
Just wondering what the best templating system is to use and/or learn. Hi, I'm just wondering why no one recommended Embperl. Like Mason, it's more than a templating system, but I find it's inheritance features great. I'm using it for a personal project and haven't really checked it's

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-20 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: TT was ok, but it did use a bunch of ram ;) So does Mason. HTML::Template is no doubt much leaner, but it's also lean on features. Nothing wrong with that if it suits your needs, though. Most Perl

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-20 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jamie Lawrence wrote: H::T is much more programmer-centric. In a lot of contexts, that makes sense. Informally (as in, I haven't done a systematic comparison), it is also faster than Mason. Mason isn't slow, but if you need every last gram of performance, well, you

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-20 Thread Ruslan U. Zakirov
Barry Hoggard wrote: I used to use HTML::Template for projects, but I moved to Template::Toolkit because I felt the former's syntax was just too limited. I know we want to separate code and logic, but H::T keeps me [skip] JE Jesse Erlbaum JE Programmer: Get object, Get object attribute

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-20 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: Actually, H::T is almost certainly _much_ faster and less RAM-intensive than Mason, at least when you measure the time it takes to serve a single page/component. OTOH, if you were to try to replicate some of Mason's more powerful features with H::T,

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-20 Thread Patrick Galbraith
-- I post on this topic with some reluctance. Asking which templating system is best is like asking which operating system is best -- or which political party is best (or political system, I suppose). It's Jihad, baby! OTOH, I've never met a flamethrower I didn't like. What's best depends

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-20 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: I've been working at Classmates.com for a couple months contracting, and they use Text::Forge. I've been impressed by the performance, and wish it was a big player. Part of the reason it isn't is guys like me should contribute to it and make it

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-20 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jamie Lawrence wrote: Mason isn't fast. It is, however, fast enough for high volume sites - that I will assert. Sure, amazon.com among them. From my view, the utility of autohandlers and dhandlers, in terms of code written vs. cost and time, is an enormous win. Add to

RE: templating system opinions

2003-07-19 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hey Ken -- Search the guide: http://perl.apache.org/search/swish.cgi?query=templatesbm=submit=sear ch I'm deeply amused that there are nearly as many articles about templating systems on perl.apache.org (30) as there are templating modules on CPAN! TTYL, -Jesse- -- Jesse Erlbaum

RE: templating system opinions

2003-07-19 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
with a true templating system, such as TT or HTML::Template, makes the templates subservient to the application logic. This is the opposite of server page systems which put the template in change of choosing functionality. In the latter, an HTTP request goes to a template which controls execution

Re: templating system opinions - Mason recommendation

2003-07-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Stas == Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stas While Andy is working on it, you can read a TT for mod_perl chapter in Stas Practical mod_perl, written by Andy as well! (http://modperlbook.org) Man, that guy is *everywhere*! :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-19 Thread Barry Hoggard
Jesse Erlbaum wrote: The big players are Template::Toolkit and HTML::Template. It's no secret that I'm a fan of HTML::Template -- Sam and I worked together when he wrote it, and my module, CGI::Application, uses it out of the box (although it does support TT). I use HTML::Template because

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-19 Thread Stas Bekman
Jesse Erlbaum wrote: Hey Ken -- Search the guide: http://perl.apache.org/search/swish.cgi?query=templatesbm=submit=sear ch I'm deeply amused that there are nearly as many articles about templating systems on perl.apache.org (30) as there are templating modules on CPAN! The search shows

templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Patrick Galbraith
Hi there, Just wondering what the best templating system is to use and/or learn. I've briefly read up on the pros and cons of each, and am just wondering which one is the most widely _used_ and best to learn if you're wanting to know something that there are jobs for. thanks ;) -- Patrick

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Ken Y. Clark
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: templating system opinions Hi there, Just wondering what the best templating system is to use and/or learn. I've briefly

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: Just wondering what the best templating system is to use and/or learn. I've briefly read up on the pros and cons of each, and am just wondering which one is the most widely _used_ and best to learn if you're wanting to know something

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Mark Maunder
-18 at 13:26, Ken Y. Clark wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: templating system opinions Hi there, Just wondering what the best templating system

Re: templating system opinions - Mason recommendation

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Devers
Sorry to cc: this to the list, but I stand corrected and might as well mention that to the list :) On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Dave Baker wrote: Correction: Bricolage is written in Mason, I believe. That's what the Bricolage authors say at http://bricolage.cc/ Hmm, so it does. I wonder where I got

Re: templating system opinions - Mason recommendation

2003-07-18 Thread Leon Brocard
Chris Devers sent the following bits through the ether: It's a pretty clever approach; I'd like to see something like this done with a Perl backend (I haven't really been keeping track of development, for all I know there already is a Perl backend...). Read more: Your wish is my command.

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Patrick Galbraith
Thanks much, Yeah, I worked with TT when I was on the Slash team ;) On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: Just wondering what the best templating system is to use and/or learn. I've briefly read up on the pros and cons of each, and am

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Patrick Galbraith
at 13:26, Ken Y. Clark wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: templating system opinions Hi there, Just wondering what the best templating

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: Yeah, I worked with TT when I was on the Slash team ;) Then why are you asking a question like this?? :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/ Turing machine, n. [After Alan M. Turing (1912-1954), British

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Patrick Galbraith
TT was ok, but it did use a bunch of ram ;) I gotta have something to counter PHP people with too ;) On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: Yeah, I worked with TT when I was on the Slash team ;) Then why are you asking a question like

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-18 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: TT was ok, but it did use a bunch of ram ;) So does Mason. HTML::Template is no doubt much leaner, but it's also lean on features. Nothing wrong with that if it suits your needs, though. Most Perl templating systems are probably slower and/or

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-09 Thread Ron Pero
At 01:01 AM 07/08/01 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: The latter gives you the ability to develop custom tag modules to encapsulate complex server-side behaviors and business rules into simple XML-like elements that content developers can use. PSP shares the same basic elements with JSP... Good

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Ron Pero sent the following bits through the ether: Don't give up. What is needed, IMHO, is a clear framework,/description/phlogeny/geneology of perl templating systems. FWIW, Greg McCarroll is writing an article for perl.com on a short comparison of templating systems, and of course we'll

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
What is needed, IMHO, is a clear framework,/description/phlogeny/geneology of perl templating systems. I'm writing such a beast for TPC this month, and will publish it when it's ready. I'm not covering every templating module on CPAN though, just the ones that people seem to actually use

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-09 Thread Ron Savage
to choose a templating system) is anybody collecting URIs of articles which give practical examples of using such systems? I'm thinking of one-template-per-article style, so we can actually learn how to use them, rather than a list of features. Cheers Ron Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-09 Thread Francesco Pasqualini
I think that a templating system is the core component of a CMS (content management system). Probably the right direction (for a good TS) is an engine like Axkit. It support other templating system like ASP and Mason too. It need more documentation and more real world examples and more users

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-08 Thread brian moseley
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Perrin Harkins wrote: Good grief! This sounds exactly like Apache::ASP with its XMLSubs feature. except with asp you get the whole asp web application environment as well.

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-08 Thread Robin Berjon
On Sunday 08 July 2001 03:30, Ron Pero wrote: Just received my issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal today, and one of the articles is A Tiny Perl Server Pages Engine. Pretty nifty. Read about it here: http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0108/0108g/0108g.htm Nifty indeed, if you're interested in such

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-08 Thread Joshua Chamas
Perrin Harkins wrote: on 7/7/01 9:30 PM, Ron Pero at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just received my issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal today, and one of the articles is A Tiny Perl Server Pages Engine. Pretty nifty. Read about it here: http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0108/0108g/0108g.htm

The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-07 Thread Ron Pero
Just received my issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal today, and one of the articles is A Tiny Perl Server Pages Engine. Pretty nifty. Read about it here: http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0108/0108g/0108g.htm Here is an excerpt: PSP is modeled after JSP. It is neither an ASP nor a JSP port. PSP includes

Re: The latest templating system: PSP in DDJ

2001-07-07 Thread Perrin Harkins
on 7/7/01 9:30 PM, Ron Pero at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just received my issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal today, and one of the articles is A Tiny Perl Server Pages Engine. Pretty nifty. Read about it here: http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0108/0108g/0108g.htm Here is an excerpt: PSP is

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 3 Aug 2000, (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: "Drew" == Drew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Drew I suppose I could... I was planning on having a nice checklist of Drew features/systems that would be a pain to do in a fixed width font. An Drew HTML table would make my life MUCH easier

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: At 05:10 PM 8/3/00 -0700, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: Having recently discovered the joy of CVS, I look forward to it. Awfully nice to able to roll back to a previous version - although (knock on wood!) I

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 08:03 AM 8/4/00 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: At 05:10 PM 8/3/00 -0700, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: Having recently discovered the joy of CVS, I look forward to it. Awfully nice to able to roll back to a

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Stas Bekman
I hope that you write the doc is POD :) I suppose I could... I was planning on having a nice checklist of features/systems that would be a pain to do in a fixed width font. An HTML table would make my life MUCH easier there. Is there something in POD that makes tables easier?

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread darren chamberlain
Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect: One book I would highly recommend on CVS is Open Source Development with CVS by Karl Franz Fogel. I found it to be not only highly informative but an incredibly fun read as well. Each of the semi-dry CVS chapters is

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: I hope that you write the doc is POD :) I suppose I could... I was planning on having a nice checklist of features/systems that would be a pain to do in a fixed width font. An HTML table would make my life MUCH easier there. Is there

Re: [doc writing] (was Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System])

2000-08-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: People are migrating to XML because there are good editors coming onto the market (though sadly none for Linux yet, but I'm getting close to persuading Arbotext to port Adept to Linux...). The editors hide the complexity and you never need to see

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Drew Taylor
Stas Bekman wrote: I believe XML is a way too heavy for docs writing. Why one will want to get a messy source code, when you can get away with a minimalistic POD. Just look at the Guide's source code and look at the generated PDF -- isn't it great? I love POD. And if you want more than POD

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
ions: you wrote a Ron templating system!" web memorial. Wow, if making suggestions here gets that kind of immediate results, let me also suggest I need a girlfriend who is travel-compatible and email friendly. Maybe one will show up. :) Not with your dancing :-P Or do you get only

Re: [OT]: mmap (Was: Templating System (preview Embperl 2.0))

2000-08-03 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Paul J. Lucas writes: On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Malcolm Beattie wrote: Assuming the kernel only keeps track of the last fault position in the file, it won't recognise that it's being read linearly (twice :-) and may well not do the async read ahead and drop behind in page cache that it would

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