Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:31:22 +0100
From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
	Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Requirements for updated site
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-On [20040116 06:22], Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@postgresql.org) wrote:
>Okay, I'm a bit curious here, and hope that Alexey can explain it ... what
>exactly is a template engine, and how does it work?  Alexey, just because
>you are familiar with one doesn't help unless there are others as familiar
>... and there needs to be a *really* clear (and well justified) reason for
>using one so that others will want to learn how to ... so if you can
>explain, and maybe provide an example?  That may help ...

See for example: www.template-toolkit.org

You create pseudo-HTML pages which have specialised code/markup which
gets replaced on the fly.

E.g. each page has:

[ %HEADER% ]

Which gets replaced by the file header.html.tmpl (assuming you defined
HEADER to be that file somewhere).

Just an example I created, might not match what template-toolkit does.

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