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There are a number of (very good) templating systems and languages available for Python. They fall in to one of two camps; either they are XML based, like Genshi, or they are text based, like Mako. Most programmers favour one or the other, but there is far from a consensus over which is better.
I'd like to use this debate to gather reasons for using one over the other in the context of web development. I suspect there will be no clear winner, but it should serve as a useful resource for those faced with the decision!
NB. You can post code with the [code] bbcode tag. Many languages are supported. e.g.
[code python]
print "Hello, World!"
[/code]
The ability to preview templates directly in a browser shouldn't be minimised!
The biggest advantage of XML based templates is previewability (to coin a new word). In a typical XML based template system I can create an entire HTML page (head section and all) with relative links to related javscript, CSS, and image resources. I can insert dummy content into nodes in the document like
<h1 template:replace="title">This will be the Headline</h1>
