On May 20, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Martijn Pieters wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Wichert Akkerman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Style sheets and images don't, and people may prefer skin layers.
Style sheets often want DTML, which is not supported in browser
resources.
Nothing stops you from using ZPT for this. ZPT may be a bit more
cumbersome to use when outputting a non-XML format, but not that
much.
Of course you can. But is is incredibly awkward to use an XML
attribute
templating language for a pure text format. We don't want to inflict
that on users. Have you ever looked at our email templates? They are
amazingly painful to read for that very reason.
FWIW, I've wondered whether the email templates could be *much*
simpler. All you need is maybe one list of variable definitions and
one string replace with the variables in the appropriate slots. Super
easy to read. In my opinion, DTML is much overrated for this sort of
stuff.
Is it the need to accommodate all the i18n stuff that makes these
templates so painful? Or is it because folks writing these things
weren't aware that you can embed linefeeds in with the tal attribute
values?
Ric
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