Haml is a simple lib for generating XHTML/XML without specifying needless parts.
It can be intimidating at first glance, because it seems so unlike the HTMLish stuff you're used to. Let's prove its superiority one feature at a time (this is a shortened version of http://haml-lang.com/tutorial.html ).
Let it be known that:
%atag{a: b} is better than <atag a="b">…</atag>
%atag.aclassis better than
%atag{class: "aclass"}
%atag#an_idis better than
%atag{id: "an_id"}
#div_idis better than
%div#div_id
= 3*2is better than
<%= 3*2 %>
So, to put them together, compare the Erb of:
<div id="banner" class="shadowed" lang="en"><%= item.title %></div>
…versus the Haml of:
#banner.shadowed{lang: 'en'}= item.title
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BTW(Edit)
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