OK, I just typed a bunch of crap after reading your E-mail and then realized I misread! So...
Regarding your two example comparisons, it doesn't have to be so...wordy. Here is what I used to use with AxKit (I now do it in Resin using XTP): http://storm.lackluster.net/~scott/resume.xps.txt And it can get even smaller if you use XSLT... But I prefer XTP myself ;) Scott -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Norris action jeans are what I wear when I hit the scene. On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Philip Mak wrote: > 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? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
