RE: [PHP] Re: Templating engines

> > Evert | Rooftop Solutions wrote: > > Yes, and that's how I read this reply =) > > > > About the subject, > > > > I'm working on a xml-based templating system, which caches all the > > steps it does, so it overcomes the slowness =) And ofcource > because I > > like xml and all the neith things you can do with it. > > > > grt, > > Evert > > OK so besides the geek factor involved, what makes an > xml-based template system that much better? The main benefit > that I've ever heard was it can make it easier for producing > output for heterogenous displays... > > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ > > The most obvious answer example that comes to my mind is > Mozilla / IBM, but then again XForms is also on my "Little > Dog Too" list. > Switching HTML to XHTML output is very trivial. <xsl:output mode="xml" ... /> to <xsl:output mode="html" ... /> Ensures proper escaping, which helps to eliminate XSS problems. Can use indenting to produce easier to read HTML (for debugging purposes) and then switch it off to save space/bandwidth in production. <xsl:ouput indent="yes" ... /> and <xsl:output indent="no" ... /> Xpath string functions provide support for multiple character sets/encodings. [I haven't used Smarty, but I'm aware a IntSmarty had to be created to cater for things like this.] Mozilla & IE both can perform client side transforms, using <?xml-stylesheet ?> processing instruction. Jared