--- Brian Candler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Designing a *good* templating engine is not
> straightforward, and nor is rewriting sqwebmail to
> use it.

It requires only 2 routines. One routine is to parse a
Tag and the other routine to parse an entire template.

I use such routines in Java and Perl, each of them are
less than 50 lines. I hope developing such routines in
C is not too complex.

--- "Paul L. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would be a lot of work to do.  I don't think the
> benefits are as great as he imagines but I don't
> think they're as small as you imagine. Whether or
not
> any of us think it is or is not worth the effort, 
> only one person's opinion is going to count - 
> Mr Sam's.  But if he has as much difficulty as the
> rest of us do in introducing changes that span both
> HTML and code, perhaps it might be to his long-term
> benefit too.

I also do agree it�s lot of work required to change
SqWebMail C programs. 

By taking out all HTML code from SqWebMail C programs
may give arise an opportunity to user interface (UI)
developers to develop compelling and competing user
interfaces to the SqWebMail. End users can download
and try them with SqWebMail. 

So Mr. Sam�s burden can be largely reduced. He just
has to specify what data are available in what
template and release very elementary templates to show
how to use it.  Professional UI developers can have
the freedom to change the structure by changing the
HTML and layout by changing the CSS. 

Finally, if Mr. Sam is interested, please let me know
to see what help I can arrange.


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