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        <title>Re: HTML Tables are the problem</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>For your table example, I assume the data inside the  is a macro-expansion/per-row formatting rule....]]></description>
        

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        <title>Re: HTML Tables are the problem</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For your table example, I assume the data inside the  is a macro-expansion/per-row formatting rule. To render a list of data in that fashion is an implicit foreach. Your template is still looping. ...]]></description>
        

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        <title>Re: HTML Tables are the problem</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Just continuing a bit, to try to demonstrate one part of the usefulness of this approach. I can re-use this logic and create another template to for example send out an email with the list of people (<i>people.txt</i>):...]]></description>
        

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        <title>Re: HTML Tables are the problem</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hi Carl,...]]></description>
        

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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Logic-less/loop-less templating langs/expressions would be nice in theory, but business apps are about data.</blockquote>...]]></description>
        

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            <description><![CDATA[Logic-less/loop-less templating langs/expressions would be nice in theory, but business apps are about data. MVC really means in business:...]]></description>
        

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        <title>Re: Frank Sommers: What Do You Look For in a Template Engine?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Logic-less templates are a good thing. And like Parr says, enforcement it much better than hoping on good behavior....]]></description>
        

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        <title>Frank Sommers: What Do You Look For in a Template Engine?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46295</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Frank Sommers of Artima has <a href="http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=210724">started a discussion about template engines</a> and asks what you find important in them....]]></description>
        

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