Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Re: XML input

Hi Manuel Lemos a dit : > On 06/06/2002 04:42 PM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: >> >> Obtaining the template's variable values from the XML output of a php >> script, using Expat and Output Control functions. > > It's slow. It won't scale unless you cache the output of your engine. > Processing XML is slow and if you can live without it, it is > recommended that you do it. Yeah, for websites if it's not optimized for speed it won't scale ; but for Intranet development, if it's not optimized for maintainability, it won't scale as well. I believe the "<?php" signature is a huge part of its identity, which makes it intuitive to read and code with ; that is : embedded. And as a plugin, it would let you free, wouldn't it ? --og