- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:31:31 +0100 (BST)
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- cc: QA Dev <public-qa-dev@w3.org>
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Terje Bless wrote: > Ville Skytt <ville.skytta@iki.fi> wrote: > > >But how about using XSLT for the "templating" instead of > >some Perl stuff? Dunno if the XML generation for XSLT should be > >templatized or hardcoded in Perl, though... > > I have several reservations about using XSLT. Apart from a general dislike > for that way of doing things, my experience is that the current crop of > tools aren't up to the task. Phooey! Current tools process XSLT nicely, and mod_xml even lets you pre-parse and cache the XSLT for performance. All you have to do is look a bit further than Perl's rather embryonic XML support. > At least for the first cut I think HTML::Template is necessary if for no > other reason then because I'm familiar with it and I'm definitely not > familiar with XSLT. IOW, using XSLT would carry significant overhead while > I familiarized myself with it and slow development down. Indeed. Something to use for new developments, rather than the existing validator and forthcoming release. Where's that new server? -- Nick Kew
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