[Petal] Petal problem

[Bruno Postle]

William McKee wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:39:10PM +0000, Bruno Postle wrote:
> 
>>It is valid XML, but anything with '$' in it is going to be 
>>problematic because Petal uses it for variable substitution.
> 
> But according to the POD, it's a deprecated syntax[1] so why even
> support it?

Because removing it would break existing templates.

It is deprecated because it is ugly and breaks the WYSIWYG test of 
hiding scary programming stuff from web-designers, but it is still 
useful functionality.

A quick check shows there are 63 instances in MKDoc-1.6 and 34 in 
MKDoc-1.8 templates - Though I suppose we ought to try and get rid 
of them.

-- 
Bruno