Ajax; Templating; and the Separation of Layout and Logic

While Ajax is the cause for the article, the heavy focus is on templating. For the past few years I have been using XTemplate as my templating library (I'm a PHP buff) and have been happily separating my logic from my layout...unitl I ran smack dab into the power of Javascript. My PHP still kept its separation from HTML as is the purpose of XTemplate, but it was my HTML that became littered with little nuggets of Javascript all over the place. No matter the method to my Ajax madness, this was my problem.

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