[Petal] Re: Petal wish list

[William McKee]

On 27 Jul 2002 at 16:46, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> I have just added a test case for it, and it all works fine. More
> exactly, you omited a '=' sign in the petal:if attribute, so of course
> Petal behaves a bit strangely...

Ahh, yes, that is a problem.
 
> I think fixing HTML is far beyond Petal's scope, so in this case I'd
> argue it's a template bug.

I agree. It'd be helpful to include a section in the docs about debugging templates. It 
seems that the TAL format introduces many more possibilities for subtle template 
bugs than I've seen in other template languages. Usu. the bugs are big enough to 
cause the page to display incorrectly or the code not to work. This bug was 
particularly subtle.

 
> So I'm going to repeat one last time: HTML TIDY IS YOUR BEST MATE!

Thanks. You may have to remind us again, though <g>. It'd certainly be helpful to 
add the capability to Petal to run templates through HtmlTidy before processing.... 
This would be useful during development but would obviously be best to remove 
before putting the code into production.


Thanks,
William
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