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mjst - Micro JavaScript Template Engine

This is the content I've written so far in the official mjst repository . I'd love to know your thoughts about this little experiment, cheers! What mjst is a lightweight, about 1Kb minified and gzipped, and performances focused template engine with standards support. There are dozens JavaScript ? Template Engines solutions out there but as far as I know this is the only one based on validation for both client and server side programming languages. How There is one single function to call: // via text (e.g. Ajax or innerHTML from a template node) var transformed = mjst ( '<?js var hello = "mjst!"; ?><js-hello/>' ); // classic template node example < script id = "mytpl" type = "text/html" >   <? js     var hello = "mjst!" ;   ?>   < js - hello /> < /script> myEl.innerHTML = mjst(document.getElementById("mytpl")); / / via XML ( e . g . Ajax or a created document ) // this is a ...

Template Engine - Why Bother? XML + XSLT

I am not sure I read the entire recent " war " in the PHP general mailing list about the best PHP Template Engine Option but, generally speaking, this argument is truly loads of solutions and controversial opinions. Here I am with mine. PHP 5 And In Core DOM, XML and XSLT Apparently, all these " Smarty adorers " did not consider that PHP 5 introduced a lot of core classes to work over DOM, XML, and transform them via XSL files. Nothing to do, they prefer to move an entire template application rather than use the best native, fast, in core, solution . Here a couple of reasons to generally prefer XML and XSL Transformations rather than whatever engine, specially those written in PHP itself, a not that fast interpreted programming language. Think Portable Apparently developers like to be stuck forever in a single programming language , something I cannot even try to consider, since Information Technology means Flexibility and Updates . An extremely valid point to cho...