As per Marc's request, I am continuing the thread on web-devel only. I have CC'ed everyone who has participated in this thread so far. Michael Snoyman wrote:
why bother with the XML at all? I've experimented both with writing HTML which gets rendered by code, or writing code that creates the HTML, and I think the latter is more flexible
It doesn't have to be XML, but there are several reasons why you sometimes want a web authoring language that is intentionally limited. You don't always want your web design artists to be responsible for software authoring. They may not have enough programming skills. Even if they have the skills, their interaction with the QA department is much more expensive if they could potentially be affecting more things. Of course, the QA department, the web art department, and the software development department might all consist of just you. In that case, you would want something like Text.XHtml :) Marc Weber wrote:
If you don't konw WASH yet please do have a look at the examples. I find the idea behind WASH pretty neat.
Yes, a modernized version of WASH would be great. Especially if it supports AJAX semantics as well, but that would obviously be a lot more work. How about an option to compile to PHP, so you could use it on the super-cheap hosting services? :) Regards, Yitz