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Presentation Styles

There are several different styles of presentation technology employed in the various Web application frameworks (see WebProgramming).

An interesting article which introduces other useful terminology is [http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html "Choosing a Templating System"].

Syntax

In the area of syntax, several different design decisions are made alongside the above classifications, and this is often the principal reason that new template systems get invented:

Examples

Some presentation systems fall neatly into the categories above. Others are less easy to classify but have a closer association to one category than the others.

PythonInWebPage

  • Castalian
  • ["Cheetah"]
  • PSP (from ["Webware"])
  • ["Spyce"]

StructureAnnotation

Hybrids

Programmatic

  • PTL (from ["Quixote"])

Notes

Feel free to add more abstract descriptions and more examples to help people decide what they are looking for!

Do you need to use full-fledged python, embedded bits of definitions but no functions -- there is a range of options depending on your problem. Sometimes there's no python in "the output page" -- as in raw documents put thru a filter. Or there may be limited amounts of embedded python -- as in YAPTU and other filters. Or python may be the matrix language, with text embedded within it. Your handler code can be anything from a substituter (using, say, regular expressions to catch things to be altered) to a mini python engine. See [http://pythonjournal.cognizor.com 'Python Journal 3(1)'] a feature article that draws together several of the options above into a series on the pure-text to pure-python "dimension". See what your options are.

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