Re: HTML forms and piplining templating systems

2001-12-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
> I'm curious about one thing: How easy is it to do fill-out forms > with pipelining templating systems like AxKit? I'd think that in > such cases the stylesheet would have to do so much work that it > would become, in essence, like a CGI script. Can you explain what work you're talking about h

Re: HTML forms and piplining templating systems

2001-12-10 Thread Gerald Richter
> > > But then if you're happy with EmbPerl, why switch? > > A couple of reasons, really: > > 1) well, I actually wouldn't switch per se; people think in > different ways, and it's often useful to support (and feel > comfortable with) different development paradigms > Embperl 2.0 (sta

RE: HTML forms and piplining templating systems

2001-12-10 Thread Matt Sergeant
> -Original Message- > From: Richard L. Goerwitz III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Is AxKit the best of the pipelining breed, though? (I personally > am finding XML to be a ghastly, ugly thing; it all started with > namespaces, which are implemented via attributes in a horribly > kludgy

Re: HTML forms and piplining templating systems

2001-12-10 Thread Richard L. Goerwitz III
Matt Sergeant wrote: > But then if you're happy with EmbPerl, why switch? A couple of reasons, really: 1) well, I actually wouldn't switch per se; people think in different ways, and it's often useful to support (and feel comfortable with) different development paradigms 2) EmbPe

RE: HTML forms and piplining templating systems

2001-12-10 Thread Matt Sergeant
I tend to use PerForm for complex forms: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/AxKit-XSP-PerForm/PerForm.html Others write custom taglibs: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/AxKit/Apache/AxKit/Language/XSP/Tagli bHelper.html The general idea is that the output is an abstract representatio