Thursday, April 7, 2005, 5:35:57 AM, jian chen wrote: > Hi, All, > > I have quite some experience with JSP and Velocity. To say it short, I > think Velocity is THE way to go. Reasons below: > > 1) Velocity syntax is very easy to recognize in any html template. > Other templating systems like FreeMarker, makes it really hard to see > what is the artificial html and what is the real one.
FreeMarker syntax admittedly has its shady sides (and also its advantages), but... maybe it is just me, but I find it really easy to spot FreeMarker directives in the HTML soup, since they look like <#foo ...> and <@foo ...>. No HTML/XML tag name can start with # or @, so it is clearly visible what is a directive and what is static text. So, in what way are Velocity directives more visible? Otherwise I like it similarity to HTML when I write HTML or XML templates... like for example: <@fancyH1 bookmark="mediaTypes">Supported media types></@fancyH1> <p>The <@keyword>blueray</@keyword> discs are...</p> where fancyH1 and keyword are macros invoked above. But this last surely just matter of taste. -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
