Maybe I'm not understanding the question, but it is perfectly possible 
to ignore the template and have index.html be anything you want. I have 
some pages that wrap the code with other templates (I use more than one, 
depending on the location on the site), and pages that stand alone. And 
I have pages that are generated entirely in the snippet. I also have 
URLS that respond with pure XML, some of which are generated in the 
snippet code, and others which are bound to a simple template in the 
webapp directory.

Did I miss something?

Chas.

Derek Chen-Becker wrote:
> Well, I just tested and this seems to not be the case :(
> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Derek Chen-Becker 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     I think David could better answer this (I haven't looked at this
>     part of the code for a while), but I think that anything outside of
>     the <lift:surround> tag is tossed, so you could have a fully
>     compliant XML file that will only have a portion used.
> 
>     Derek
> 
> 
>     On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Marc Boschma
>     <[email protected] <mailto:marc%[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
>         Hi Mal,
> 
>         That aspect of the lift templating approach also warped my head
>         for a
>         while, having seen so many examples of the opposite approach (PHP,
>         JSP, etc)...
> 
>         There is a certain part of me that still is unsettled about it,
>         but I
>         can see the advantages of it.
> 
>         Marc
>         Ps. can the files such as index.html in the examples be full XML
>         compliant documents?
> 
>         On 13/03/2009, at 3:30 PM, mal3 wrote:
> 
>          >
>          > Why does HelloWorld index.html contain a snippet rather than a
>          > complete XHTML page?
>          >
>          > When I first saw the HelloWorld example I thought there must be a
>          > mistake,
>          > because the index.html file contains a snippet, while
>         default.html
>          > contains
>          > what looked more like a complete XHTML page.
>          >
>          > Why doesn't lift initially reference a complete XHTML page
>         and then
>          > pull in the snippet(s)?
>          >
>          > Is it to make it difficult/impossible for logic to creep into the
>          > view?
>          >
>          > Mal.
>          >
>          > >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 

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