On Feb 12, 2008 5:10 PM, Greg Donald <gdonald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 3:37 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > well thats what xslt is, which is pretty nice. > /\ is a statement, not a question ;) > > /me point Nathan to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question > > XSLT sucks, complete overkill. > the best part about xslt is its a standard, not some new contrivance from some other corner of the galaxy like smarty. furthermore i dont think it overkill at all. so lets see, what are you rendering, o, a subset of xml, xhmtl. so its actually quite concise. beyond that its well suited to target the output from an application to other potential clients such as programmatic ones eg. web service clients or mobile devices. -nathan