Now that Thymeleaf seems to have been abandoned in a half-broken state, anyone know of any decent XML based HTML template libraries for Java?
To be explicit, I *don't* want generators that use Jinja-like text syntax to generate markup-ish tag soup output. Rather, something that requires well-formed XML input so that it generates well formed HTML output. This implies using markup for control statements etc, like Thymeleaf or Genshi.
TIA!
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To my mind, Genshi remains the pinnacle of HTML template library development, never surpassed.
If someone feels like porting it to Java, I would be eternally grateful. 🙏🏻
@mjog I don't have a suggestion, but I am having bad memories of all the awful ways I've used to generate HTML in the past. Will I ever get over having used ASP.NET Webforms?
I do wonder if a clean, efficient solution was ever widely agreed on.
@abstractcode It seems like the world has, for worse, settled on Jinja-like approaches, which basically make it trivial to do the wrong thing. It's the PHP of the HTML templating world.
There is, happily, an extremely well-suited and well-supported, strict, markup-supporting input language that we could use to make sure generated HTML output is always well-formed: It's called XML.
Sadly, XML has a shit reputation after being the GenAI of the early 2000's. So even for perfect use-cases such as this, people flinch away from it, and hence we are stuck with crap like Jinja.
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