From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2009-03-25T02:02:29+09:00
Subject: Re: tagz-5.0.0


On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> Ara Howard wrote:
>> you mean combining erb with the dsl i assume?
>
> At a lower level, the use of hashes to represent attributes is
> strikingly similar. e.g.
>
>    a_(:href => "/foo"){ "bar" }
>
> compared to HAML:
>
>    %a{:href => "/foo"} bar
> or
>    %a{:href => "/foo"}= "bar"
>
> HAML lets you put any Ruby expression inside %a{...} which returns a
> hash. Of course, tagz is real Ruby code, whereas HAML is its own
> language.
>
> The other thing which struck me was your use of nesting to build  
> tables.
> HAML really excels here, and the indentation-driven syntax means you
> don't have to balance the closing parts. Somehow I find this more
> natural for web page templates than for code.


gotcha.

one thing i *really* like about tagz, for real mark-up coding, is that  
i can use % in vim to match open/close tags in vim (or whatever your  
fav is) and also can use 'ruby -c' to validate my markup.  because it  
is valid ruby code you get all the ruby goodness and ruby editor  
goodness for free.  it was a side effect i hadn't intended when  
writing it but have grown to rely on - sorta like tab completion: i  
just can't go back to visually scanning to make sure xml is balanced  
and correct ;-)  my goal is generally to factor out enough tagz so my  
erb templates fit on one screen and then i just trust tagz/ruby for  
the rest.

cheers.

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