On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On 4 Jan 2018, at 12:47, Marius Dumitru Florea < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Well, HTML is what people understand. > >> XSL-FO would not be very widespread. > >> > > > > > >> What other language do you want the tempting language to orient itself > on? > >> > > > > None. I want to be able to use the templating language to generate JSON, > > XML, CSV, etc. i.e. whatever text format I need. For instance I want to > > generate the live table results JSON using the templating language like I > > do now with Velocity. > > What’s the problem with velocity? > Velocity is a bit slow I think, in any case way slower than executing Java code directly (e.g. if you compare a Java REST resource with its equivalent written in Velocity in a wiki page). Thomas probably knows more. Now I don't know if the other templating engines are faster. Anyway, I was just replying to Paul. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > > > >> > >> paul > >> > >> On 4 Jan 2018, at 11:24, Eduard Moraru wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < > >>> [email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> From the home page it looks very HTML oriented, which is not good for > >> us. I > >>>> think we need a general purpose templating language that can be used > to > >>>> generate anything (JSON, XML, CSV, etc.) not just HTML. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Yeah, my first impression was that it looks very similar to JSF, maybe > a > >>> bit simplified and less configuration needy. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Eduard > >>> > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:48 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> See http://www.thymeleaf.org/ > >>>>> > >>>>> With this, users could combine HTML and scripting which could be a > nice > >>>>> option when using the {{html}} macro for example. > >>>>> > >>>>> {{html}} > >>>>> {{thymeleaf}} > >>>>> … > >>>>> {{/thymeleaf}} > >>>>> {{/html}} > >>>>> > >>>>> Related: > >>>>> * https://dzone.com/articles/template-engines-review-after- > >>>>> deprecated-velocity > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks > >>>>> -Vincent > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >> > >
