Comments on: Genshi: A Real Web Templating Language http://chrismoos.com/2007/10/17/genshi-a-real-web-templating-language/ coding my way through life Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:51:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chris Moos’ Blog » Blog Archive » Genshi vs. Mako http://chrismoos.com/2007/10/17/genshi-a-real-web-templating-language/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Chris Moos’ Blog » Blog Archive » Genshi vs. Mako Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:35:38 +0000 http://chrismoos.com/2007/10/17/genshi-a-real-web-templating-language/#comment-109 [...] I stated previously how much I like Genshi…I’ve come to realize that the performance of Genshi under high [...] [...] I stated previously how much I like Genshi…I’ve come to realize that the performance of Genshi under high [...]

]]> By: Simon Willison http://chrismoos.com/2007/10/17/genshi-a-real-web-templating-language/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Simon Willison Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:10:39 +0000 http://chrismoos.com/2007/10/17/genshi-a-real-web-templating-language/#comment-13 We considered XML when we initially developed the Django template system, but ended up going with text instead. I won't repeat all of the arguments here, but one significant benefit of not using XML is performance - Django's template system is built around a single regular expression and runs extremely fast as a result. There was a good debate about the merits of XML v.s. non-XML template systems recently here: http://www.becontrary.com/debates/xml_or_text_for_python_templates We considered XML when we initially developed the Django template system, but ended up going with text instead. I won’t repeat all of the arguments here, but one significant benefit of not using XML is performance – Django’s template system is built around a single regular expression and runs extremely fast as a result.

There was a good debate about the merits of XML v.s. non-XML template systems recently here: http://www.becontrary.com/debates/xml_or_text_for_python_templates

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