This one time, at band camp,
Hardik Doshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> THe stuff which you are doing with XSLT and XML is
> pretty same like Smarty template engine? What is the
> advantage of using XML, XSLT than Smarty template
> engine?
Well basically, Smarty is gay.
Smarty supposedly will seperate code from content.
but you have still need to markup to able to handle loops,
conditions etc which puts code right back into the content.
But it is Smarty code and not PHP code, where is the value in that?
The pre-supposition is of course that html designers are idiots when
what is really needed is to teach them some basics about PHP rather
than introducing an entire new (Smarty) concept.
Of course when you build an application with Smarty you get to
use buzzwords like multi-tiered, but this slows you down.
The extensive use of regex within the application cannot be a
good thing. The use of tags such as {foobar} could easily be replaced
by <?=$foobar;?> or <?php echo $foobar; ?> and most every thing else
is easily handled with file_get_contents() include() or eval()
I am not saying Smarty is a worthless piece of dog shit, quite, I just
feel it create unneccessary overhead without delivering true seperation
of code and content.
The XML way I am implementing also does not achieve this, and does not make any claim
to
it mearly makes the information available to many applications which
can format or do with whatever the programmer wants. Example... If I have a news
script with the output
<root>
<news>
<nid>24</nid>
<news_headline>Smarty is dead</news_headline>
<news_story>People finally wake up</news_story>
</news>
</root>
Now other applications can snarf this information readily. So you can do something
like a news headlines block on the side of your page ala freshmeat. just take the
<root><news><news_headline> in a xsl:foreach and you have it. This can be done
application using xml.
So anyhow, just my $0.02
Try Smarty, try other template solutions, roll your own, or find the solution that
best fits your needs. There is no ultimate Template Engine or application. It really
is horses for courses.
enjoy
Kevin
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Kevin Waterson
Port Macquarie, Australia
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