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Re:Beautiful mini language for outputing HTML in Python by nopal on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @08:40AM (#1020439)
While your language^3 comment is technically true, this seems to be simply shifting one markup syntax to another, using a language to perform the translation.

In addition, using something like SHPAML requires knowledge of the final output syntax, so the person using it must already know how to code.

Edit: In reading my response, it seems too curt. I definitely see your point, but more so in contexts other than this.

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Re:Beautiful mini language for outputing HTML in Python by showell on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @06:12PM (#1021541)
It is not a promise, or even a goal, of SHPAML that it will relieve you the burden of understand the final output syntax, whether that is HTML or HTML combined with some template language.

SHPAML users are expected to be literate in both HTML semantics and syntax. The semantics of HTML are not abstracted away at all. The syntax is only abstracted away where it is redundant.

As a couple folks have pointed out, HTML is a pretty simple language. The problem with HTML is not its lack of simplicity; it is its verbosity.

So, if you use SHPAML, you undeniably get the terseness of SHPAML and the powerful semantics of HTML. So the question then comes down to simplicity. Does SHPAML eliminate too much of the simplicity of HTML syntax in trying to achieve terseness?

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