Comments on: Dumb Idea: Let’s write a new templating language

By: giovanni

giovanni — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:13:18 +0000

nothing to say. i love Textpattern and Expression Engine, with the latter my favourite. … but mainly wanted to see the “preview” widget in play. nice!

oh, one thing. if you are a clever TxP expert would love to hear from you. cheers all!

ps Brad.. may need you for a WP project for our organization

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By: Shawn_S

Shawn_S — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:17:11 +0000

I think we are all … OMG, I love the auto-preview as you type thing you have going on your blog :- ) ….

… as I was saying, I think we are all fighting this template thing. For some of us the impetus is that we are now suddenly faced with javaobjects instantiated from JSON received through AJAX calls which somehow have to find themselves in the markup.

The traditional way if to have a loop in javascript iterating through the data and adding nodes to the DOM.

This is the sort of stuff that some can do with their eyes closed yet still find irritating.

The fact of the matter is that it is easier to change HTML than to change javascript that generates HTML. Because of this I have gravitated to a templating concept that uses the HTML as a template and the JavaScript simply to populate the template via innerHTML.

Perhaps you might be interested in having a look at it:
http://jsrepeater.devprog.com/

There is an example of its use transforming the data from the Google Search API at:
http://jsrepeater.devprog.com/google.search.websearch.example.html

By: Brad Touesnard

Brad Touesnard — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:11:51 +0000

I’m not saying XML or markup languages in general are dumb. That would be ridiculous.

I’m saying inventing yet another templating language is dumb and it’s especially dumb to invent one with an XHTML-style given the skill sets of those who work with templating systems.

No offense to yourself or the Textpattern team. I’m sure the decision to develop a new templating language was made a long time ago. As was the base64 encoded plugins concept.

By: Robert 'wet' Wetzlmayr

Robert 'wet' Wetzlmayr — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:18:03 +0000

Hint: Think XML, XSLT and the applications thereof (MathML, SVG). See a pattern?

I wouldn’t name XML dumb without a reasonable cause, and would even expand this stance to XML-inspired domain-specific transformations.