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Wed Dec 16 13:34:44 PST 2009

Fairlight write Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:14 PM:
> 
> Only Bruce Easton would say something like:
> > but I don't view what I described (using only :cr :tx and :cl) as 
> > using an intermediate layer.  I just view that as just
> 
> Well the whole thing is an intermediate layer.  You have your 
> content, you have your markup.  Then you've got this little 
> shorthand intermediate layer to tell fP how to apply markup 
> -to- the content.  It's a further layer of abstration that 
> probably makes debugging a complete bitch.
> 
[..]

Right, but my point was that doing:

Then: ab="<tr><td style='";color:"{fld(30){"'><b>"{4{"</b></td></tr>"
  If: 
Then: ax=writeline(aa,ab)

verses:

Then: html :tx "<tr><td style='";color:"{fld(30){"'><b>"{4{"</b></td></tr>"

is just a difference in handling how output is done, not really 
whether or not you have to learn some extra in fp for html (since, 
as I said - I am only using :cr, :tx and :cl).
So as long as you're outputting from a processing table, I don't 
see where either technique poses another layer over the other.

But to me sometimes having to have something above the <html opening 
tag in the output is reason enough to stay away from the internal 
fp html commands altogether.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.