[TYPO3-50-general] [TYPO3-team-core-v5] Templating Engine

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Christopher Hlubek wrote: on 24.10.2008 12:56:
> 2008/10/24 Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] <ernst at cron-it.de>:
>> Ok, but I don't see any way to make a valid XML document if you want to
>> create a (non-XML) HTML 3.2 template without escaping xmlEntities.
> 
> Who wants to create an HTML 3.2 template with TYPO3 v5 in let's say 2009?
> 
> I think the most common task is creating XHTML templates (95%+),
> that's where validation should be possible and auto-completion is most
> useful. All other non-XML formats are more exotic and not very common.
> They should be possible without a doubt, but validation and
> auto-completion is not an issue there (at least in my opinion). And
> maybe the DEV3 IDE could be convinced to perform auto-completion even
> on that.

HTML 3.2 was just an example. I was talking about any non-XML template
which might contain "<", ">" or "&" strings, which are special
characters in XML. This include text-templates, javascript passages etc.
They have to be escaped, but I guess CDATA should be enough to do it.

Cheers,
Ernesto