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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

StructureAnnotation

Hybrids

Programmatic

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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