[Product-Developers] Re: Where does it hurt?

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Martijn Pieters wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> >> Style sheets and images don't, and people may prefer skin layers.
> >
> > Style sheets often want DTML, which is not supported in browser
> > resources.
> 
> Nothing stops you from using ZPT for this. ZPT may be a bit more
> cumbersome to use when outputting a non-XML format, but not that much.

Of course you can. But is is incredibly awkward to use an XML attribute
templating language for a pure text format. We don't want to inflict
that on users. Have you ever looked at our email templates? They are
amazingly painful to read for that very reason.

Wichert.

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