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- Freemarker is a logical choice when implementing serialization of an object or object tree into an HtmlElement.
- Generating an HtmlElement from Freemarker is simpler and more portable that doing the same via java code using HTML5 DTOs.
- Binding the resulting HtmlElement produced by evaluating Freemarker template(s) to the appropriate HTML5 DTO allows validation of the result vis-a-vis the HTML5 spec.
- Choice of how to present (View layer) an object tree should be entirely disconnected from implementation of the object class (Model layer)
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