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Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by joelbondurant on Thursday June 05, 2014 @02:39AM (#7850532)
Despite the best efforts of millions, XML still sucks as a general purpose programming language.
Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by kethinov on Thursday June 05, 2014 @09:20AM (#7851771)
How's this take? https://github.com/kethinov/teddy

Not exactly a general purpose programming language (as XML really shouldn't be used that way, of course), but I think it takes a lot of the ugly verboseness out of most XML templating systems, including the OP's.

Maybe I should post a "Show HN" thread too. ;)

Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by kristopolous on Thursday June 05, 2014 @09:53AM (#7851944)
yes you should. this thing is amazing.
Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by kethinov on Thursday June 05, 2014 @11:36AM (#7852437)
Also, have you heard of ejs? It seems like it has similar design goals to what you're working on. https://github.com/visionmedia/ejs
Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by kethinov on Thursday June 05, 2014 @11:32AM (#7852419)