Re: Naming advice for a templating module

2006-02-25 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 02:22 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-26 01:40]: > >I don't like the repetition. Repeating "XML" adds no value to > >the name for me. > That was my objection... but I admit it _was_ taste to some extent. Just did not seem elegant, an

Re: Naming advice for a templating module

2006-02-25 Thread Terrence Brannon
Can you give some usage examples of your approach to XML templating? I'm curious to see what you need that XML::DOM, XML::LibXML, XML::LibXSLT, and PeTaL and XML::Twig cannot do for you.-- http://slowchess.com/ http://www.moneycoop.org http://www.osogd.org http://www.metaperl.com http://www.livin

Re: Naming advice for a templating module

2006-02-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-26 01:40]: >I don't like the repetition. Repeating "XML" adds no value to >the name for me. Well, taken versus the XML::Template approach, it makes some amount of sense. With XML::Template you don’t actually write templates so much as grammars and insta

Re: Naming advice for a templating module

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:22:55AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > >BTW: I don't really like XML::XMLTemplate... > > *What* about it do you dislike? Any objective reason, or is it > just a matter of taste? I don't like the repetition. Repeating "XML" adds no value to the name for me. Why not go sh

Re: Naming advice for a templating module

2006-02-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hi Lincoln, * Lincoln A. Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-25 23:30]: >Usually superior designs can be used to wrap infrerior ones in a >way that provide backwards compatibility... If the problem is a >data file format one, then you could perhaps detect the older >format, and drop down to the ol

Re: Naming advice for a templating module

2006-02-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* apv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-25 21:35]: >NO!!! > >Oh, okay. Haha. I know, I know. But trust me, you don’t want to use XML::Template. And while Text::Template is perfect for anything not involving markup, I hate doing markup stuff with any of the other choices available. Not f

Naming advice for a templating module

2006-02-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hi all, yes, yes, a templating module. Shush. This one differs because it’s a pure-XML approach. The templates must be well-formed XML, and the design of the template language is built to ensure, as best as possible, that the output is well-formed at all times as well. Much to my dismay, the obv