[Yanel-dev] Some criticism on Jelly

[Michael Wechner]

Josias Thöny wrote:

> Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Please do not take the following link personal, but I think there is 
>> some truth to
>>
>> http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2004/6/10/jelly-scripting-for-the-soulless
>
>
> Most of these points are rants against XML in general, and not about 
> jelly in particular (i mean verbosity, entity problems, namespaces, etc).
>
> But I agree with some of the other points, e.g. about the error 
> reporting of the jexl expression language.
>
> What we need in Yanel is to create XML dynamically using java code. 
> There are several ways to do that:
> - use XSLT and pass dynamic stuff as parameters to the XSLT
>   (IMHO this is not flexible enough)
> - generate an XML with DOM, SAX, or as a simple string
>   (IMHO not nice, because it yields too much unnecessary code)
> - use an engine which lets you access java objects within XML,
>   like e.g. Jelly or Velocity
> - ...
>
> Among these alternatives, I still think that Jelly is good, although 
> it's certainly not perfect...


very valid points and I agree (although I have posted the link ;-)  
maybe we just need more documentation (including best practice) in order 
to help people.

Cheers

Michi

>
> josias
>
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Michi
>>
>
>
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