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Templating and XML modelling
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Martin Sand Christensen
Nov 13, 2012, 9:53:04 AM11/13/12
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Hi!
At our IT department we've developed a basic templating system for web
apps in the spirit of Meld3 (which appears to have been abandoned some
time ago), based on lxml. Here's what we like about it:
* It's just a library, not a template language
* It uses templates that are valid XHTML
* It's trivial to generate tables and forms from database metadata
* It's trivial to fill named elements á la format strings
While we like it, it's more code to maintain. Between the time when we
started coding this and now, more new templating systems have appeared
than I can reasonably evaluate. So now the question is whether we can
find a good replacement or whether we should publish our code and hope
that more people will adopt and help maintain it.
So...
1) Can you suggest a good alternative that sounds like a good fit?
2) Does our templating system sound like just what you've been looking for?
--
Martin Sand Christensen
IT Services, Dept. of Electronic Systems
At our IT department we've developed a basic templating system for web
apps in the spirit of Meld3 (which appears to have been abandoned some
time ago), based on lxml. Here's what we like about it:
* It's just a library, not a template language
* It uses templates that are valid XHTML
* It's trivial to generate tables and forms from database metadata
* It's trivial to fill named elements á la format strings
While we like it, it's more code to maintain. Between the time when we
started coding this and now, more new templating systems have appeared
than I can reasonably evaluate. So now the question is whether we can
find a good replacement or whether we should publish our code and hope
that more people will adopt and help maintain it.
So...
1) Can you suggest a good alternative that sounds like a good fit?
2) Does our templating system sound like just what you've been looking for?
--
Martin Sand Christensen
IT Services, Dept. of Electronic Systems
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