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.
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.
