From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2003-02-14T16:38:21+09:00
Subject: Re: why html template systems never use new tags?

Tom Sawyer wrote:

> 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 Perl module HTML::Template, the choice for writing pure views in 
Perl, has

     <TMPL_VAR name="foo">

-- fxn