Roberto Amorim wrote:

>I used to think the same way until I got to know ZPT (Zope Templates). They
>succeed in making interaction between designers and developers a breeze,
>when coupled with Zope's object model. Really interesting, and I'd recommend
>you to try it to see for yourself.
>
Roberto,

I believe the interesting feature of ZPT is that they introduce no 
custom tags, but instead let you use special attributes on normal HTML 
tags, like placing a looping attribute on a <tr>, correct?

As template systems go, I like this approach.  I've released a couple of 
frameworks that do exactly this (IOWA, and Seaside 0.9x), the earliest 
of which I'm pretty sure predates ZPT.  I actually took things a little 
bit further, in that you could use any normal *attribute* simply by 
putting a "@"  at the beginning of the attribute value to mark it as 
containing special information.  This means that you can use the default 
dialogs for, eg, the href of an <a> tag, that WYSIWYG editors provide.  
Colin's Nori package for Seaside2 carries on this strategy.

So when I enumerated the ways that templates suck, it was certainly with 
this kind of template in mind.  Although it's definitely preferable to 
embedded code, it doesn't change any of the fundamental problems.