Tasks:
1. a few web pages generation with predefined layouts
use templates approach
2. a few web pages generation with not predefined layouts (calculated
dynamically)
use HTML generation classes
3. lot web pages with predefined and not layouts
use XML+XSL approach
Dmitry.
----- Original Message -----
From: Robb Shecter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Classes to generate HTML -- Why?
> "Robert A. Crawford" wrote:
>
> > A template system separates the HTML/formatting from the
> > logic....
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It'd be interesting to make a taxonomy
of
> web content generation ideas, and implementations of those ideas.
>
> For example, the way that these HTML template systems have been described
> makes it sound like they're competitors to the idea of XML+XSL.
>
> I wonder how these two approaches compare? An advantage of HTML might be
that
> "anyone" can do HTML layout, but writing XSL is much more like
programming.
>
> On the other hand, a servlet producing XML (which gets transformed by
XSL),
> seems like it has a more clearly defined function; it would construct an
XML
> doc of a known type. It also seems like passing XML around would "scale"
> better in a design sense. You've got a formal description of a particular
> important abstraction in your system.
>
> But in "typical" web/scripting/app-writing scenarios, this kind of design
> formality might be a drawback.
>
> Comments?
> - Robb
>
>
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