Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] Template Discussion

> And we already have a library that does this in PHP4, which is > the severely underdocumented and highly experimental DomXML > extension by U. Steinmann. Inflammatory personal opinion: > In my not so humble opinion that should become the PHP template > system and the current template approach should be abandoned, > because it does not contain anything that can't be done with > if() and here documents. But I suggested thing like that back > in the days of PHP3 RC2, and got toasted for that. 1/2 :-) I don't see XML (and XSL/DSSSL/whatever) conflicting with a template based approach to web design. Your designers won't have any desire to learn XSL, and if you start adding style information to a XML structure in PHP (be it with LibXML or Expat), you've lost your separation again. LibXML is great anyway, of course, and a XSL processor inside PHP would be greatly appreciated. :) -Tobias