[UFO Chicago] so, check out asciiweb

[Ian Bicking]

Since we're talking about templating, I should plug Cheetah
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org, which is a templating language for 
Python that I'm involved with.

I've done m4, but ultimately the quoting drove me nuts.  There's no
escapes, so there's no way to express the quoted string "'".  That,
and you constantly have to think about how many levels of evaluation
a string is going to go through, to figure out how many quotes the
string needs.  Painful.  It only gets to be a problem if you are 
passing large strings around, as I am apt to do with templates (but
not everyone is).

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 05:50:01PM -0500, Lukas Eklund wrote:
> Quoting Elliot Shank:
> > Since Peter and I were dicussing web site templating at the meeting,
> > here's 1) a good article from a few months back on choosing one out of
> > the bazillions of templating systems out there:
> > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html and 2) A link to
> > http://www.template-toolkit.org/ (because it looks interesting and I
> > want to look into it later and thus my U.F.O. list archive acts as a
> > reminder :] ).
> 
> If you are generating static pages, you can use m4. There's an old
> Linux Gazette article on using m4 to write html
> 
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue22/using_m4.html
> 
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