What is Clearsilver?
Clearsilver is a fast, powerful, and
language-neutral HTML template system. In both
static content sites and dynamic
HTML applications, it provides a separation between
presentation code and application logic which makes
working with your project easier.
The design of Clearsilver began in 1999, and evolved during
its use at onelist.com, egroups.com,
and Yahoo! Groups.
Today many other projects and
websites using it.
Why use Clearsilver?
High Performance and Language Neutral. Because Clearsilver is written
as a C-library, and exported to scripting languages like
Python, Perl, Java and Ruby via modules, it is extremely fast. This also
means you can work with the same template system independent
of the language your project is in.
Pluggable Look and Feel. Clearsilver makes it easy to
face lift a site by providing a new set of templates. It is
possible to easily run more than one look and feel at once,
and share components with a base look and feel to reduce
maintenance.
Internationalization Support. Clearsilver makes it
trivial to support internationlization. You write your templates
in your native language and included tools automatically extract
and catalog language strings for translation.
Advanced features. Built in support for advanced
features such as gzip compression,
smart whitespace stripping, parametric macros, online
debugging mode, url and javascript string escaping, and more.
How can I learn more?
The Clearsilver documentation explains both
the theory of operation for
Clearsilver itself, the C-api, and the extension module APIs.
[ What does Clearsilver look like?
]
[ How is Clearsilver different
from ASP, JSP, PHP? ]
[ How does Clearsilver compare with XML/XSLT? ]
[ Who is using Clearsilver? ]
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Recent Discussion |
SVN Repository Available
[2009-Nov-05]
After much work, I've been able to migrate the full history of
Clearsilver into an SVN repository at Google
Code. A new release should come soon.
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Release ClearSilver 0.10.5
[2007-Jul-12]
Mostly a bugfix release, see Release Notes
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Release ClearSilver 0.10.4
[2006-Nov-14]
Bugfixes, python 2.5 support and Automatic escape mode, see Release Notes
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Article about using ClearSilver in embedded systems
[2006-Jul-31]
Cliff Brake has an article about choosing
ClearSilver for use in embedded systems where memory and processor space is at
a premium. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Release ClearSilver 0.10.3
[2006-Mar-12]
Another release, fixes the main configure bug in the last release, and a bunch
of things you probably won't notice.
Release Notes
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Re: build-in escape functions
- Brandon Long
That means you haven't included the escape functions in your program. In C, calling cgi_register_strfuncs will add them all. I think the Java and Python
build-in escape functions
- caox
I am a new user of clearsilver and I am trying some features of it. when testing the build-in escape functions such as url_escape and html_escape, some error
How to (use | compile) gettext with clearsilver ?
- bxxx
Hello, I use clearsilver with fastcgi/lighttpd. I have problem in this file : hello.html : <h1><?cs var:_("hello world !") ?></h1> After Refresh my page, error
Re: AJAX Support
- oglausa
You can easily create Ajax applications with Clearsilver. Smart way is to use JSON for messaging format and you can use Json-C or Yajl with your project.
Re: AJAX Support
- Brandon Long
That's kind of an open ended question. Yes, you can write an AJAX app in clearsilver, but clearsilver doesn't really have much to assist you in this. There's
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ClearSilver was written by
Brandon Long.
Many of the concepts behind ClearSilver are based on work by Scott
Shambarger,
Paul Clegg and John Cwikla on the templating system
for onelist.com and eGroups.com.
Donations in the form of Good Tequila or Chicago Pizza
will be greatly appreciated by the authors.
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