[Laszlo-user] Your vote needed: Text formatting and datapaths

[Paulo Scardine]

> We recently added a `format` method to the text tag that allows you to 
> format the content of a text tag using the standard printf-style 
> controls.  We think this will be most useful when data binding a text 
> node.  As an example, if you have an XML dataset of people with 
> firstName and lastName nodes, you currently would display each 
> element... [choped]

I vote #2.

Reason: We have xml, javascript and ${foo} syntaxes. It's too much.

<twocents>IMHO ${foo} is a nice hack (I love laszlo contraints) but I 
would avoid using it or at least keep use very simple if possible. 
Abusing ${foo} is asking for trouble.</twocents>

Regards,
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Paulo