Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of GenshiFaq

Timestamp:

Jul 11, 2006, 8:52:55 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

cmlenz

Comment:

Add Q/A about includes

GenshiFaq

@@ -50 +50 @@
  * Different serialization methods (XML and HTML) for streams.
  * An HTML “sanitizing” filter to strip potentially dangerous elements or attributes from user-submitted HTML markup.
+
+== Why use includes instead of inheritance? ==
+
+We think that includes are both simpler and more natural for templating.
+
+Template inheritance is a concept that fits well with template languages where a master template provide “slots” that are “filled” by the inheriting templates. However, Markup has no such feature, and instead uses the more powerful and flexible concept of [wiki:MarkupTemplates#py:match match templates].
+
+Furthermore, XInclude is a W3C standard, which means that it is more likely to be supported in authoring tools than some esoteric custom notation for including external resources.