About Web Templates - Template engine...
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1. Template engine: the software, it processes input, transforming into web document. It have two typical entities on input:
a) Web template: a recipe with web document fragments, to transform content into web documents.
b) Content resource: a input supplier, like a SQL database or a XML file.
2. Template language standards: the language of the recipe.
Websites often require regular content updates, and standardization of appearance.
A news website, for example, needs to be daily updated. Each news item will be contextualized by a standard presentation (page layout, structure, etc.). A typical strategy to automate this standardization is:
1. choose a web template system to maintain the website;
2. group news items into sets, with different presentation needs;
3. specify the "presentation standards" through web templates, for each set of news;
4. specify a content resource to generate or update the content of each news item.
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