How To Dynamic Web Rendering?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-05-17 10:16, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Nick Sabalausky"<a at a.a>  wrote in message
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>> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
>> news:iqt6kb$1nd1$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> On 2011-05-16 15:43, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>>>> Instead you move the view layer into the model or controller
>>>>> layer. How's that any different?
>>>>
>>>> Is that really what's happening? Any template has variables made
>>>> available to it from the model. I'm just making them available
>>>> at a higher level (pre-wrapped in semantic tags and grouped
>>>> together).
>>>>
>>>> The actual layout and styling, sometimes even data formatting - the
>>>> stuff I think of as the view - is still done entirely in the
>>>> separate html and css files.
>>>>
>>>> I realize this isn't a perfect argument, but it's still worth it
>>>> to me to have those other processing options available.
>>>
>>> I got the impression that you basically did all HTML with D methods,
>>> maybe I don't understand your work flow.
>>>
>>
>> AIUI:
>>
>> 1. It starts out as ordinary HTML with no special non-standard tags or
>> anything. But it might use id and class attributes to mean certain things.
>>
>> 2. In D, that HTML is loaded and parsed into an HTML DOM.
>>
>> 3. In D, the data is filled into the HTML DOM. Sometimes this might
>> involve a amall amount of adding HTML tags/attributes or other weird
>> tweaking if necessary.
>>
>> 4. The new HTML DOM is written out as straight HTML.
>>
>> Basically just like DHTML, except on the server and using D.
>>
>
> And AIUI, it can also be thought of as being like an HTML templating engine,
> except instead of working with proprietary tags and text subsitution, it
> works with id/class attributes and an enhanced HTML DOM.

That would require a lot of otherwise (possibly) unnecessary id/class 
attributes (if they aren't removed). If you're not careful with your CSS 
you can accidentally style tags.

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/Jacob Carlborg