Cezar Totth write:
>
> Disagree. you can use templates to generate many types of textual
> content, without changes in Java classes:
> rich text format, postscript, TAB-delimited-tables (for spreadsheet
> import), SQL "insert" or "update" content, and even XML.
>
> This, in most cases, without the intervention of the guy (girl) who
> wrote the .java source.
>
> Template engines are in fact data extraction tools from living java
> apps, using introspection or not, more or less optimized.
> The resulted documents can be any external representation of that
> data, not only .html
Please read my post. Even if you had a single template tool that allowed
to deal transparently with all text formats (not true), you still have
important non-text formats missing.
How are you supposed to write a webmacro-like script in a PDF, Word, or
PS document ?
Carlos
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