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Hello,
Would you care to provide me with links to the Templatotron resources? I
would like to learn more about it.
Thanks.
Regards,
Jose.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miloslav Nic [mailto:nicmila@systinet.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 7:04 AM
> To: james anderson
> Cc: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] [Ann - Zvon] Templatotron
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, james anderson wrote:
>
>
> I have not been aware of TAL till this moment.
>
> The history of Templatotron is very simple:
>
> A week ago I was thinking about some way how to make my XSLT prototyping
> as fast as possible and compatible with my way of thinking.
> I did a few experiments and found that implementation was very easy.
>
>
> I did not research any similar approaches and so I cannot argue for their
> pluses and minuses.
>
> I guess that as an advantage can be considered the fact that you can
> compile a Templatotron template with any XSLT processor and you can then
> use the generated stylesheet with any XSLT enabled program including
> browsers.
>
> And of course, I consider Templatotron very natural and simple to learn
> and after scanning TAL spec I am still not too sure how TAL is to
> be used and so I can argue that TAL is rather over-complex. :))
>
>
>
> >
> > This looks similar to TAL in the the zope page template system.
> > One difference is the approach to namespaces.
> > In the TAL case, a transformation is triggered simply by the presence of
> > an attribute from the distinguished space. In the Templatotron case,
> > it's the presence of such an element identifier.
> >
> > What was the thinking behind this decision? From reading the tutorial,
> > it was not clear that this latter mechanism affords any advantage to
> > counterbalance the added complexity.
> >
> > Miloslav Nic wrote:
> > >
> > > Templatotron is a simple language for template based XML
> processing. It
> > > can be also thought of as a language designed to save some writing in
> > > XSLT stylesheets and for keeping your attention focused on
> the XML syntax
> > > not on the XSLT one. I do not personally mind the rather verbose XSLT
> > > syntax and so in my eyes the second point is much more
> important but there
> > > are others who may appreciate Templatotron terseness.
> > >
> > > ....
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