On Wed, 16 May 2001, Jon Stevens wrote:
> on 5/16/01 4:02 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Yet another template generation language ??? #foreach ???
>
> Costin, what rock have you been sleeping under for the last 5 years?
> Velocity is simply a cleaner implementation of WebMacro. It isn't "YATGL".
Sorry, from that example I didn't realized it's a webmacro ( there are not
too many languages to use "#" this way ) - and to be honest it's not on
the list of languages I use.
> Also, there is a reason for the #foreach...
>
> <http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ymtd/ymtd-hosting.html>
>
> Explain how you are going to fix that little problem Mr. Smart Ass.
Well, ignoring the "Ass" part - if you are talking about allowing only a
restricted set of tags and not allowing java code in the page - that can
be done ( and it's not even difficult ).
> > Yes, that's really humorous... but I guess I'll stick with W3C's
> > templating language for a while :-)
>
> Oh yea, I forgot! The W3C knows everything and everything that comes from
> the W3C is *perfect*. XSLT is oh so great and perfect. Yea. Right. Open your
> eyes dude.
Oh, yea, I forgot - you are smarter than W3C and everyone else :-)
XSLT is not perfect - neither is HTTP or HTML or any other standard. But
because Apache and many other organizations are implementing and using it
- I think they'll be around for a while :-)
Costin
