[Chicago-talk] Templating bits

Warren Smith warren at warrenandrachel.com
Mon Jun 19 21:34:28 PDT 2006


If you need some more ammo, give me a holler. I have *much* experience 
with Petal. See revision 2.11; I've been in the source many, many times.

Elias Lutfallah wrote:
> That would be worthwhile and interesting.
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>> The discussion above about Mason and TT got me thinking about something
>> interesting. At work we use Catalyst for our web apps, with a templating
>> system that I'd never run into before: "Petal", based on Zope's TAL
>> language.
>> At first, I found it difficult and downright bizarre, but after about a
>> month, I came to really love it. Why? Because it demands to work with
>> well-formed XML, and works on the _structure_ of the document rather than
>> just considering it as a load of text.
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>> In fact, I'm just now wrapping up my first project to make really major
>> use of
>> Petal. Would anyone be interested in seeing a short project talk: "Dynamic
>> website translation with Petal and Gettext" ? :)
>>
>> Andrew
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