On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:21:13AM -0500, Esposito, Francis (Exchange) wrote:
> My big problem with template toolkits are they really target one problem
> space. The one where I have some data in a database that I want to publish
> in HTML or XML format. These work great for this and I don't discount there
> usefulness. (Although I would never touch one I could not get the source
> for since I have been burned like that in the past.)
Agree with you on the closed-source problem, cannot agree with
you on the "one problem space". I've used templates to produce email,
reports, and the obligatory HTML/XML. Since a good template system
doesn't care what the uninterpreted text around its tags looks like,
there's no reason you couldn't produce TeX source from a template,
feed it through the appropriate processing, and have beautifully
typeset output at the end.
<shrug>
I think those of us using template systems do so because
we've weighed the benefits and costs and those systems come out
ahead. It has a lot to do with the environment you're working in,
as well as the specifics of the project. In other situations,
other decisions would be made.
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