Re: yet another template

On Wednesday, November 7, 2001, at 11:48 AM, Paul Meagher wrote:

Not sure I agree with you there. If you start adding for loops and conditionals to your templating language then you are probably better off mastering XSLT especially considering that IE ships support out of the box for it and the same API can be used on the server side as well.

I definitely agree with you, XSLT is such a handy template system, and it's pretty easy to get the hang of. The problem is not that it requires XML output (that would make it rather useless), but that it requires XML input. If you are querying a standard OS database such as mysql, you'll have to put that XML input together yourself, perhaps using an ordinary template system. The problem there lies in that you'll be performing twice the transformations, which is just too much overhead. I guess it comes down to the best tool for the job. Lux

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