[MTOS-dev] More sophisticated interface of MT::Template::Node (Reloaded)

[Timothy Appnel]

On 3/14/08, Hirotaka Ogawa <hirotaka.ogawa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Instead of providing XML (template) parser and DOM inside MT, we can
>  reuse well-known and high-performance modules for this purpose.
>  Cleary, it's too excessive solution at this moment.  However, assuming
>  that someone may want to implement XSLT processor or something on top
>  of MT::Template in the future, possibly it will be a natural solution.
>   That's what I mean by "further".

That seems way out there (an XSLT processor? want to? ack!) and even
implausible since MT markup alone is not XML compliant -- in fact its
gone further away from that in recent. Further a template is certainly
not going to be XML compliant since MT tags appear inside of HTML or
XML and in other fringe cases MT is being called on to generate
something that is not markup at all. Ben and I had a similar talk as I
recall and he pointed out that compiling (parsing) templates is
marginal in comparison to building them.

Is it me or are a lot of Perl developers fixated on LibXML and if so
why isn't it part of the Perl distribution by now?

<tim/>

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