No. We're not doing it wrong. I am hand coding HTML in nXML mode in emacs. I'm also hand coding various templating languages/libraries which generate HTML.

No. We're not doing it wrong. I am hand coding HTML in nXML mode in emacs. I'm also hand coding various templating languages/libraries which generate HTML. Nothing's wrong. What the OP is doing wrong is writing bad titles for posts about an otherwise decent tool, Zen Coding. Better to skip the post and just read about Zen Coding directly: http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/ http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/