From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-12-12T23:23:24+09:00
Subject: Re: which template for ruby-begin project?

Brian Candler wrote:
[...]
> For generating (X)HTML I use HAML - you'll either love it or hate it. I 
> love it because my templates are tiny, I never have to close any tags, 
> and I'm always guaranteed well-formed XML.

Unfortunately, you don't want well-formed XML for Web apps -- you want 
well-formed HTML4.  XHTML never quite fulfilled its promise, and is not 
really supported in IE. (No, serving it as HTML is not the answer -- the 
syntaxes are just incompatible enough.)  I used to serve XHTML from Web 
apps, but I've changed them to HTML now that I understand the problems.

Fortunately, with Haml, this is just a question of tweaking an option or 
two.  With Rails, you also need the html_output plugin to get the 
helpers playing along; I'm not sure about Sinatra.

Best,
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