[TYPO3-content-rendering] Extension PHPTAL - Another way to cleanup extension code from extreme rendering code

[Sven Wilhelm]

Hi,

I just uploaded the PHPTAL template system to the repository.

Why PHPTAL?

I will use this system as my template system of choice for all xhtml/xml 
rendering stuff now, because it HELPS the developer to write nice code.

What's wrong with the TYPO3 template system?
If you write extensions that render to html, xml or any other format you 
have to write many code with the traditional style TYPO3 template api.
You have to fill array, substitute them,...
It's almost a not really nice way of coding.

PHPTAL mean PHP Template Attribute Language and is a extreme powerful 
template system that is written on the drafts of ZOPE TAL. There are 
many other implementations for scripting languages like perl,...

TAL enriches xml documents with tags that are substituted by setting 
variables due an api and execute the processing. The use their own 
namespaces for their attributes.

I think using the PHPTAL system will reduce the template code inside the 
  extensions and - that's more important - the code will look much more 
better.

If you like to learn more PHPTAL, see [1]

[1] http://phptal.motion-twin.com/

Ps: I've packages the version for PHP4