[MKDoc-users] Newbie questions: MKDoc templating system

[Jay Chowdhury]

Jean-Michel:

Good to see you've got the users' list going...

>>
> Just curious: Is it possible to use another templating system -- I was
> thinking specifically of HTML_Tree, which uses valid HTML templates that
are
> parsed into a DOM, and then programmatically modified to use the content
> nodes. Or another system?
<<

>...The advantage of HTML_Tree is that you can view pages "as they are" in
WYSIWYG editors. Although I understand that can be nice, IMHO that
limits the template features too much....<

I agree. I suppose WYSIWYG editing has it's place, but none of the current
crop of commercial products seem to do a very good job of generating valid
XHTML. My main reason for thinking in terms of a "straight HTML" templating
system has to do with portability -- everytime one moves from one one CMS to
another, there's always: a) a learning curve b) an effort to modify current
content into a new system.

>...If we were using HTML_Tree, MKDoc would have to preload all the data
that
MIGHT be used by the template before it can process it. Which is not good at
all, because templates can virtually access the whole site data!...<

I don't know too much about HTML_Tree (or the MKDOc templating system, yet
:)) -- I assumed that its DOM capability allowed one to access nodes that
allowed dynamic templating of some sort.

Anyway, as I mentioned, I was just curious...and as I learn more about
MKDoc, these things will resolve themselves.


Jai


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