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On 2014-01-24, 11:18 GMT, you wrote:
> Write your rendering engine as a few simple helper functions, 
> and then put all the rest in as code instead of XML. The 
> easiest way to go about it is to write three forms, from 
> scratch, and then look at the common parts and figure out 
> which bits can go into helper functions.

Perhaps what's missing is full acknowledgment that Python has 
dual-inheritance and thus it can have mixin classes (which seems 
to me to be the only useful use of dual inheritance). You know 
you can have mixins in Python, right?

Also, I wrote my share of XML parsing/writing code, but more and 
more I am persuaded that if the answer is “XML” then there is 
some wrong with the question. Python is a way more expressive 
language than XML, so it is almost always more useful to write 
in Python, than to pass any problems to XML.

Matěj

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