I find the reactions to Joe’s post (also here), frankly, appalling.

Erich, I’ve been working on one for this blog. No persistent cache to speak of except for the files themselves when their sources haven’t been touched, and I haven’t found any reason to need XML, but I was trying to avoid much of the same nonsense you mention. As such, the templating is as dumb as possible. Perhaps you can do a lot more with XSLT, but I didn’t find it very interesting. Templating systems in general make me itchy.

I am now, however, thinking about making it easy to subclass that part of things as well, which could be interesting. Write something to talk to the big XML library, one import in layout, a few lines to save the cache in a pickle... hmm!

(I always stick a “raw-html” role into reST if I really need it for something, but generally, I try not to think about HTML period.)

I haven’t heard from anyone about it yet so I don’t know which X, Y, and Z are obviously lacking. :)

“All IT arguments are based on rationalizing what the user has already chosen for social or emotional reasons.” —Don Marti

This is without a doubt the best spam I have ever received.

Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:14:35 -0060

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To: 9wm@packages.debian.org

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OMG! I just remembered I own a copy of the elephant shrew book!

...Somewhere.

I would have had no idea that’s what those were if not for this page. (This is a blog, I have to make a link somewhere. Read the articles; they made me smile at least.)