Re: [development] Node Rendering Debate

The problem with drupal_render

currently is we're limiting it to generating node bodies. This is a highly nestable API... I'm not sure why we aren't rendering pages using this as a starting point and having new renderAPI element type like 'page', 'section', 'block', 'container', 'node'...

in drupal6, user profiles are printed via drupal_render(). and unlike nodes, this call comes right in the .tpl.php file. see user_profile.tpl.php in /modules/user

I know we all probably think of this as FormAPI at the moment, but formAPI is the renderAPI with some form processing specifics built on top of it.

i think many people now understand this distinction. it took us a while, but we are leaving that confusion behind ...