Comments on: MJT: JavaScript Templating Library

By: Rizqi Ahmad

Rizqi Ahmad — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:20:49 +0000

how can I make a link??? http://zparse.net.tc

By: Rizqi Ahmad

Rizqi Ahmad — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:19:44 +0000

I just released my try on javascript templating. please try this: zparse

By: Jason Crowther

Jason Crowther — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:46:33 +0000

For those stuck in the dark ages of perl, jemplate (http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Jemplate-0.20/lib/Jemplate.pm) is an interesting option; Especially, if you already use the perl template toolkit, since it uses the same template syntax.

By: wezzy

wezzy — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:13:07 +0000

Here you can find another javascript template library, give it a try jstemplate

By: carmen

carmen — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:13:31 +0000

there isnt overlap? as far as i can tell both of them are mini-procedural languages embeddable in custom DOM element attributenames/elementnames. theres a million of these templating languages. this one is neat since its built for JSON instead of XML, but otherwise, its still a subset of javascript hacked into custom attrs – unless you really need to let dreamweaver users edit the templates.

im finding it hard to find good documentation on E4X, but i think its the same idea, only you get the full language, instead of wahtever functions the author decided to expose into the mjt attr->func space?

By: Kevin Hoang Le

Kevin Hoang Le — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:44:24 +0000

There’s NO overlap in functionality between this and XSLT. However, like several people pointed out earlier, both and TrimPath offer pretty much the same functionality. This has ideal usage when you don’t like either innerHTML or DOM manipulation.

The only problem, as also seen with TrimPath, is because of the ${..} syntax, this will collide with the Stripes framework (for those of us who speak Java and prefer Stripes over Struts).

By: dizzle

dizzle — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:29:58 +0000

they already invented a technology just for this… XSLT

By: Brian Reischl

Brian Reischl — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:47:19 +0000

Just from a brief look, it seems very similar to TrimPath Javascript Templates. Looks like MJT is closer to being valid markup, which is kinda nice. It also has some Ajax built in, which may be nice or a waste depending on your situation.

By: Liming Xu

Liming Xu — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:32:46 +0000

I like the idea of templated language espeically if I can fix in the Ajax stuff.. it’s similar to JSTL in Java.

It will definitly help in lots of Ajax scenarios, however, if UI components like yahoo UI and what not can provide support for it, then it will truely take off.. that’s my perosnal opinion.

For example, i sure can use the template to gerneate a table, but what if i need sorting on the table, resize, drag and drop, etc.. it will be nice if a UI grid provides support for it.

By: Patrick Lightbody

Patrick Lightbody — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:10:25 +0000

I’ve been using TrimPath’s template library and it has worked out nicely. Can anyone describe what is different about this one? Speed? Language? etc?

By: mikael bergkvist

mikael bergkvist — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:08:09 +0000

This is another take on this. http://www.xindesk.com/jtemplate/default.asp

The main points is speed and freely mixing javascript with html.

By: Rizqi Ahmad

Rizqi Ahmad — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:22:14 +0000

Damn, I am also about to release a templating library :(

By: Dan G. Switzer, II

Dan G. Switzer, II — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:08:50 +0000

I’m not a big fan of template markup that use this structure, because they generated invalid markup. It’s the main reason I’m not a big fan of Adobe’s Spry project.