push-style templating - an xml-like way to process xhtml

[Tino Wildenhain]

Terrence Brannon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The most common way of dynamically producing HTML is via template
> engines like genshi, cheetah, makotemplates, etc.
> 
> These engines are 'inline' --- they intersperse programming constructs
> with the HTML document itself.
> 
> An opposite approach to this form of dynamic HTML production is called
> push-style templating, as coined by Terence Parr:

Hm.

"<a href=$attr.url$>$attr.title$</a>
$if(attr.active)$
$attr.submenu:menuItem()$
$endif$"

This looks ugly to me.
Why not just using well tested TAL, which is
also available for a number of languages?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language

In contrast there would be something like TSSL, which
unfortunately never saw the light of the day yet :-)

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zpt/2002-May/003304.html

(This solution would not even touch the HTML directly)

Regards
Tino
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