This is what the template format will look like.

<div>$ID$</div><div>$Life$</div>

$ characters can be represented by a double string. We can pass in an array.

What are the advantages:

• Developers don’t need to think about whether or not the data they are putting in can have special characters - which is common source of bugs in web applications. The templating library will always do it.

• The ‘library’ can be expressed in a few lines of Javascript - so no big mystery on how it works.

• There are no fancy callback features to tempt developers to write complicated code.

• There is no caching - but we don’t have 600 extra lines of unnecessary Javascript and caching takes extra memory and is probably premature optimization and our simple code will be faster anyway.

• Putting the responsibility elsewhere for handling logic in absence of data etc. Encouraging separation of concerns.

• There is no danger of the templating library becoming a crappy language.