Adopt an Orphaned Tailor

i was wondering if anyone wanted to adopt a worthwhile but orphaned
project?

the project is xml:Tailor. i’ve had it sitting around here for quite
some time, and it works amazingly well acutally, except for one thing:
speed. its just too damn slow. of course it could also use some tweaking
arond the edges, and who knows what else.

but wait, what is it you ask? its a TAL for XML/XHTML and Ruby --a Tag
Attibute Language, similar to what Zope has, but better: Ruby code can
be easily embed into the Tag attributes.

anyway, i finally have it up on my site.

http://www.transami.net/ruby/

note that the specs link dosen’t work. but if you ask nicely :slight_smile: i can
throw together a brief spec.

if anyone is interested please let me know. i think its a worthy project
but i have lots of other stuff to do right now. in fact, if somoeone
could get it running nice and fast, it would certainly be the best
alternative to ERuby.

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tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net

Great! But… what’s a Tag Attribute Language?

Cheers,
Nat.

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On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:34, Tom Sawyer wrote:

but wait, what is it you ask? its a TAL for XML/XHTML and Ruby --a Tag
Attibute Language, similar to what Zope has, but better: Ruby code can
be easily embed into the Tag attributes.


Dr. Nathaniel Pryce, Technical Director, B13media Ltd.
Studio 3a, 22-24 Highbury Grove, London N5 2EA, UK
http://www.b13media.com

here’s a zope page about them.

http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/AttributeLanguage

zope has a TAL called ZPT (Zope Page Templates) they define a spec
called TAL and METAL, but TAL can be used generally as well.

essentially you’ll have something like this, as a very simple example:

Greeting

the title variable defined in the scope of your program when rendering
this tag will be substituted in for the word Greeting.

b/c all the dynamic behavior is defined in attributes you can use
wysiwyg XHTML tools without a problem.

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tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net