From: Iain 'Spoon' Truskett <spoon@...>
Date: 2003-02-14T13:16:08+09:00
Subject: Re: why html template systems never use new tags?

* Tom Sawyer (transami@transami.net) [14 Feb 2003 13:21]:
> curious, i've realized that i have never seen any html template
> systems that use new tags. for some reason i've always assumed there
> was a reason for it, but now i thinking about it and i'm not sure what
> it would be. for ex-

>   <var name="x">

> is there a good reason for not doing something like this?

The major browsers, for a while, had fun adding new tags every now and
again. Which isn't the best when your templating language wants to
use some of its own.

These days, with XHTML, you could, theoretically, use xml namespaces and
have rubbish like:

 <eruby:var name="fnar" value="4" />

But damn that's verbose. [My major complaint about HTML/XML and other
SGML derivatives (and SGML itself) is about the verbosity.]


As a sidenote, <var> is used by HTML already =)

cheers,
-- 
Iain.