How do you deal with all this typing?

[Philip Mak]

Hello,

I'm an Apache::ASP (mod_perl) programmer. I'm checking out AxKit
because it looks interesting.

One question I have is, how do you deal with all this typing? I was
reading the examples at http://axkit.org/docs/guide.dkb?section=4 and
it seems that when everything is an XML tag, there is a lot of typing
to be done.

For example, take the following simple example of a webpage that has a
form which says "Enter your name", and submits to itself upon which it
redisplays the name entered:

<xsp:page
 xmlns:xsp="http://apache.org/xsp/core/v1";
 xmlns:param="http://axkit.org/NS/xsp/param/v1";
 language="Perl"
>
<page>
  <xsp:logic>
  if (<param:name/>) {
    <xsp:content>
     Your name is: <param:name/>
    </xsp:content>
  }
  else {
    <xsp:content>
      <form>
        Enter your name: <input type="text" name="name" />
        <input type="submit"/>
      </form>
    </xsp:content>
  }
  </xsp:logic>
</page>
</xsp:page>

That's 23 lines of code. If I were to do this in Apache::ASP with the
'page' tag defined as an XMLSub, it would be only 11 lines, which is
about 50%!

<page><%
    my $name = $Request->Params('name');
    if ($name) {
        %>Your name is: <%=$name%><%
    } else {
        %><form>
            Enter your name: <input type="text" name="name" />
            <input type="submit" />
        </form><%
    }
%></page>

I find the latter example to be much more readable and faster to code.

Am I missing the point here?

I read that one of the significant advantages of AxKit is total
separation of web design and code. However, on the websites that I
work on, I do both the web design and the code.

Thoughts?

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