[Nitro] xhtml builder in model?

[James Britt]

TRANS wrote:
> On 9/6/05, James Britt <james_b at neurogami.com> wrote:
...

>>No, I thin the idea is to be able to do something like this:
>>
>>my_model.render( pdf_writer )
>>  or
>>my_model.render( wml_writer )
>>
>>where all *_writer objects expose a known API; my_model need only know
>>about that single API, passing data to the writer object.  The writer
>>need not know the data details of my_model.
> 
> 
> But what does that amount to? Both writer's have to have the same API.
> That can be difficult, commonly resulting in an LCD effect. Even so,
> you've reduced the problem to a single interface writer->model, but
> it's a  one-to-one mapping so you can turn it orthogonally and do
> model -> writer. It amounts to the same thing.
> 
>   class Writer
>     def render( model )
>       do_this(model.x)
>       do_that(model.y)
> 
>   class Model
>      def render( writer )
>          writer.do_this(self.x)
>          writer.do_that(self.y)
> 

I don't know that I can offer a persuasive argument, but I prefer the 
latter.

James

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