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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@s...] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 7:04 AM > To: james anderson > Cc: xsl-list@l...; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: [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. > > > > > > .... > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > > > > -- > ****************************************** > <firstName> Miloslav </firstName> > <surname> Nic </surname> > > <mail> nicmila@s... </mail> > <support> http://www.zvon.org </support> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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