Tuesday, 2002-02-19 : DTemplate 1.0.1 and the future
I’ve updated the Downloads section with a new version of DTemplate. This version fixes a bug with the fetch function.
If you’ve looked at the comparison to FastTemplate 1.1.0 you’ll notice that in NESTED DYNAMIC BLOCKS DTemplate and FT get closer in performance as you increase the number of times you parse the template. I haven’t tested it, but I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that at some point DT will be slower than FT1.1.0 when using nested blocks.
Well, rest assured, if you are using nested dynamic blocks (and haven’t gotten around this problem by using a separate template file for the nested block), I’ve thought of a way to fix this so it will be much faster, I just haven’t had time to implement it yet.
Future plans also include adding XML support so we won’t have to use HTML comments for dynamic blocks. Won’t