On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, Lauri Liinat wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> has anybody ever thought about supporting HTML 4.01 in
> the DOMXML extension as Gnome libxml supports it anyway?
>
> should be a relatively simple addon, yet extremely useful for
> processing layout templates and finally killing the long thread
> of discussion on the brain-dead text-substituting templating
> engines. i think the text-substituting way of templating sucks
> because you basically invent a new way to mark up things,
> which is nonsense since html itself already is a markup language.
> now when you use your little text-substituting engine a bit in practice,
> you will eventually find that you need more than just text-substitutions
> and then you start inventing a whole new scripting language for rolling
> loops, etc, which is extra idiotic as php itself already is a scripting
> language, letting you do all that, and more. the only thing you have
> gained at the end is a relatively dumb monster which is slower,
> non-standard, lets you do less and does it all worse, no matter
> whether it is written in PHP, C or assembly. if i wanted to do
> any text substitutions, i would do that with <?= $var ?> and
> if i wanted to roll out a table row, i would do that with
> <? while(...) { ?><tr> ..... </tr><? }?>, simple as that.
> there's no point in using a home-brewn scripting language
> to do those tasks, is there? all the constructs are already part
> of the php language...
Are you done?
*Plonk*.
-Andrei
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