Your right. I have a long history of working with XML/SGML and yet
here I am author of a package which is in a way a competitor.
But in a way it isn't either--XML is going to dominate many areas of
we development, but not all. Unless your project is document centric
already, or has some other special reqirement that makes it a close
fit, the XML approach won't be well suited.
However, many projects are--
In the end I see XML and template based approaches as complementary
alternatives, rather than competitors.
Justin
WebMacro Servlet Framework
http://www.webmacro.org
Quoting Robb Shecter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> "Robert A. Crawford" wrote:
>
> > A template system separates the HTML/formatting from the
> > logic....
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It'd be interesting to make a taxonomy of
> web content generation ideas, and implementations of those ideas.
>
> For example, the way that these HTML template systems have been described
> makes it sound like they're competitors to the idea of XML+XSL.
>
> I wonder how these two approaches compare? An advantage of HTML might be that
> "anyone" can do HTML layout, but writing XSL is much more like programming.
>
> On the other hand, a servlet producing XML (which gets transformed by XSL),
> seems like it has a more clearly defined function; it would construct an XML
> doc of a known type. It also seems like passing XML around would "scale"
> better in a design sense. You've got a formal description of a particular
> important abstraction in your system.
>
> But in "typical" web/scripting/app-writing scenarios, this kind of design
> formality might be a drawback.
>
> Comments?
> - Robb
>
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