What Tab said.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Clint Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hmm. I have to say that I disagree that your example below shows a
>> template within a template. That is IMO 1 template wherein there is
>> iteration syntax.
>
> The "iteration syntax" is basically an element - the example that Arv
> gave even used element-like syntax, with open and close tags. That
> iteration element is inside of a template.
>
> If iteration uses a different tagname than normal templating (say,
> <iterate>), thus avoiding the "nesting <template> in <template>"
> problem, you still have the problem of nesting iteration, which is
> *also* a common ability for template systems.
>
> Any way you slice it, common templating scenarios will create problems
> if you don't hook it up to a proper parser at some point. Might as
> well do that early so you can immediately delve into it with DOM
> methods and whatnot, rather than delaying it and keeping it as flat
> text until the point of use.
>
> ~TJ
>
