Danny Ayers wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm sure most programmers would agree that hardcoding and templates each
> have their place. One thing that does irritate me though is how systems
> for templates (not just for Java/HTML) keep appearing that require the
> user to learn proprietary techniques, usually scripting languages. All
> are offered as timesavers, 'no hardcoding required' being the selling
> point. Well, I wouldn't have to do any Java hardcoding if I'd bothered
> to learn Perl & PHP scripting...
I agree with you. My approach has been to even avoid proprietary tags in
the HTML, and do all the programmatic manipulation from Java. This
leaves many unsolved problems, however, as in HTML you don't have an
universal way to locate by name individual tags, and relative addressing
workarounds -as I did- are easily broken. And if you want to insert, for
example, a table into the document, you must put the formatting of the
individual cells into the Java program.
My solution to this was to use XML instead of HTML, and use style sheets
to do the final graphic rendering. The problem is that these style
sheets are still too obscure for the graphic designers to work with. I'd
like to hear other people's experience with the deployment of XML as an
HTML substitute.
Carlos
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