Philosophies and limitations

Now that you've gotten a feel for the Django Template Language(DTL), it is probably time to explain the basic design philosophy behind the DTL. First and foremost, the limitations to the DTL are intentional.

Django was developed in the high volume, ever-changing environment of an online newsroom. The original creators of Django had a very definite set of philosophies in creating the DTL.

These philosophies remain core to Django today. They are:

  1. Separate logic from presentation
  2. Discourage redundancy
  3. Be decoupled from HTML
  4. XML is bad
  5. Assume designer competence
  6. Treat whitespace obviously
  7. Don't invent a programming language
  8. Ensure safety and security
  9. Extensible

Following is the explanation for this:

  1.  Separate logic from presentation ...

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