[Zope3-dev] <script> - the anti-pattern

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:37:30AM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> For what it's worth, there exists a templating approach that makes it 
> *impossible* to put code into templates, but still makes it possible to 
> create arbitrary dynamic content in an extensible way.  There are three 
> different Python systems that use this approach: PSO, twisted.web.woven, 
> and peak.web.templates.  Essentially, in all three approaches, a special 
> attribute of an XML/XHTML tag specifies a factory for a Python object that 
> will be responsible for rendering the contents of that tag.
> 
> Thus, the visual designer is limited to expressing only concepts that are 
> made available by the author of the Python objects.

(snip)
What does the invocation of a factory buy you?
How is this better than <foo tal:content="container/bit_of_code"></foo> ?

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