Document generation template engine for production usage NVelocity vs StringTemplate

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Published on 2010-03-17T14:37:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 14:41 UTC
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For building a document generation engine what would be the primary .NET framework to be used in production. The 2 main ones I see are NVelocity and StringTemplate. NVelocity in all forks to be almost unsupported at this point where as ST been active atleast as of this year.

Are either or both of these stable for use in production (if nv which fork)? Has anyone had any particularly good success with or failures using either of those frameworks?

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