You'll hear a lot of bad stuff about XSLT from Perl programmers. There are two reasons for this:

a) They are perl programmers not XSLT "programmers".
b) Perl geeks don't like XML.

Believe some of the hype, not all of it. And believe some of the bad stuff, not all of it.

I've created some very large projects using XSLT and AxKit, and while XSLT isn't the easiest thing in the world, it does have some nice features, such as being declarative (something almost no other perl templating solution achieves well) and being nicely standardised.

There are some comments about non-portability of stylesheets between processors, but assuming you don't use "extensions" then this does not bear out in the real world - stylesheets port very well between platforms.

In closing, my personal opinion is that TT is nice, but is much more of a programming language than XSLT is (despite XSLT offering functions and variables). XSLT is more likely to be understood by future "Design Geeks".

In reply to Re: Model-View-Controller: Template Toolkit vs. XSLT by Matts
in thread Model-View-Controller: Template Toolkit vs. XSLT by kvale

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.