On Feb 12, 2008 4:23 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > well thats what xslt is, which is pretty nice. > > /\ is a statement, not a question ;) Wow dude, you're a rock. I meant my question was rhetorical, not your statement about my 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 Creation does not prove usefulness. > some other corner of the galaxy like smarty. Well I certainly agree with that. Smarty is like the fat cousin you hope doesn't show up to the 4th of July cookout. But there's always some n00b developer who brings it up.. next thing you know the project manager thinks it's a good idea because his "designers" will love to use it (rofl) and then you're screwed. > 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. REST is the new SOAP. Yaml is the new XML. I'm guessing this news just hasn't made it into any PHP frameworks yet. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
