[TransWarp] Template parsing and XML/HTML processing design

[Jean Jordaan]

> I think that ZPT still embed code in a web page, and that there's a 
> better alternative.  If you've seen PSO (pso.sf.net), Twisted's Woven, 

OK, this sounds worthwhile to pursue .. 

> <h1 model="foo" view="text">Title Goes Here</h1>

.. although one aspect of ZPT that I still miss here is that the 
templates can be valid XML/XHTML with very little extra effort,
by putting all template attributes in their own namespace. Perhaps
it's just the purist in me, but I do think it'll be valuable to 
be able to pass ZPT to a strict HTML validator without worrying 
about warnings due to non-standard tags/attributes; or to process 
them with XSLT that applies only the template namespace:

 <h1 pt:model="foo" pt:view="text">Title Goes Here</h1>

Will the ZPT shorthand of

 <pt:heading_section model="foo" view="text">Title Goes Here
 </pt:heading_section>

be possible? If the view expands to more than a <h1> tag, or 
otherwise doesn't correspond directly to a handy HTML tag, it 
can be less than helpful to hang the template attributes off an
arbitrary tag .. 

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Jean Jordaan
http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za