Re: [RFI] Garbage

[Christopher Oliver]

I completely agree.

Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:

on 6/19/03 8:23 AM Peter Royal wrote:

 

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 05:53  PM, Pier Fumagalli wrote:

   

Unless I'm not mistaken, the above example template is _NOT_ a well 
formed
XML document! :-) :-)
     

Of course! I guess it was more of a, "why (nearly) re-invent the 
wheel".. But obviously it was to escape the XML syntax :)
   

Yes. remember when I made a pretty long list of all the template
technologies with respect to SAX pipelines? the result was that the
closest to optimal was a reduced set of XSLT but without XML verbosity.
Well, this is exactly what Pier is doing: the perfect template language
for cocoon. SAX emitting (thus better than Velocity for us), simple
iterative and variable expansion constructs (thus better than XSLT which
adds a bunch of things), code syntax (reduced verbosity and markup
orthogonalization), focused on one thing (thus possible to optimize and
cache).
I welcome this effort with great happyness.