Better generated layout

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Have you also noticed that HTML generated by BL often contains a lot of 
extra spaces and tabs which make the source hard to read?

There's a very simple remedy.

A BL template is a mixture of TWO languages. Most BL templates I've seen 
so far, indent the BL tags along with the HTML tags - and that causes it: 
an indented BL tag is actually a number of spaces/tags _followed_by_ a BL 
tag: and that indenting whitespace ends up in the generated code.

The trick with two-languages-mixture templates (and I've worked with such 
templates in many languages) usually is to have each language maintain its 
*own* indenting levels. I've found this works quite well with Xaraya BL. 
This doesn't necessarily make the templates harder to read (on the 
contrary!) - but an editor with good color-coding facilities will help to 
keep BL and HTML separate. (I'm using HomeSite 5.)

Here's a little screenshot to illustrate the principle:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~iamback/tests/xaraya1.png

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Marjolein Katsma
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