NAME
   Text::MicroMason::Docs::ReadMe - About the MicroMason Distribution

MOTIVATION
   The HTML::Mason module provides a useful syntax for dynamic template
   interpretation (sometimes called embedded scripting): plain text (or
   HTML) containing occasional chunks of Perl code whose results are
   interpolated into the text when the template is "executed."

   However, HTML::Mason also provides a full-featured web application
   framework with numerous other functions, and there are times in which
   I'd like to use the templating capability without configuring a full
   Mason installation.

   Thus, the Text::MicroMason module was born: it supports the core aspects
   of the HTML::Mason syntax ("<%...%>" expressions, "%...\n" lines and
   "<%perl>...</%perl>" blocks, "<& file &>" includes, "%ARGS" and
   "$_out->()"), and omits the features that are web specific (like
   autohandlers) or are less widely used (like "<%method>" blocks).

RELATED MODULES
   You may well be thinking "yet another dynamic templating module?
   Sheesh!" And you'd have a good point. There certainly are a variety of
   templating toolkits on CPAN already; even restricting ourselves to those
   which use Perl syntax for both interpolated expressions and flow control
   (as opposed to "little languages") there's a fairly crowded field,
   including Template::Toolkit, Template::Perl, Text::Template, and
   Text::ScriptTemplate, as well as those that are part of full-blown web
   application frameworks like Apache::ASP, ePerl, HTML::Embperl, and
   HTML::Mason.

   Nonetheless, I think this module occupies a useful niche: it provides a
   reasonable subset of HTML::Mason syntax in a very light-weight fashion.
   In comparison to the other modules listed, MicroMason aims to be fairly
   lightweight, using one eval per parse, converting the template to an
   cacheable unblessed subroutine ref, eschewing method calls, and
   containing less than a thousand lines of Perl code.

 Compatibility with HTML::Mason

   See the HTML::Mason manpage for a much more full-featured version of the
   capabilities provided by this module.

   If you've already got HTML::Mason installed, configured, and loaded into
   your process, you're probably better off using it rather than this
   package. HTML::Mason's "$interp->make_component()" method allows you to
   parse a text string without saving it to disk first.

   The level of Mason compatibility is described in the
   Text::MicroMason::Mason manpage.

 Compatibility with Other Templating Systems

   I've also recently added mixin classes that emulate the template syntax
   used by Apache::ASP, Embperl, HTML::Template and Text::Template.

   Because these mixins share the underlying implementation of compiling a
   custom Perl subroutine, they theoretically could execute faster than the
   run-time evaluation mechanisms used by the originals, although no
   benchmarking has been performed yet.

DISTRIBUTION STATUS
   This is version 1.98 of Text::MicroMason.

   This is an BETA version on a development track for a 2.0 release.

   This module has been available on CPAN for over two years.

   If you encounter any problems, please inform the author and I'll
   endeavor to patch them promptly.

   This module's CPAN registration should read:

     Name            DSLIP  Description
     --------------  -----  ---------------------------------------------
     Text::          Grp 11 Text Processing
     ::MicroMason    Rdpfp  Simplified HTML::Mason Templating

   This release has been tested succesfully on the following platforms:

     5.6.1 on darwin

   Earlier releases have also tested OK on a wide variety of platforms. You
   may review the current test results from CPAN-Testers:

     http://testers.cpan.org/show/Text-MicroMason.html

INSTALLATION
   This module should work with any version of Perl 5, without platform
   dependencies or additional modules beyond the core distribution.

   You should be able to install this module using the CPAN shell
   interface:

     perl -MCPAN -e 'install Text::MicroMason'

   Alternately, you may retrieve this package from CPAN
   ("http://search.cpan.org/~evo/") or from the author's site
   ("http://www.evoscript.org/Text-MicroMason").

   After downloading the distribution, follow the normal procedure to
   unpack and install it, using the commands shown below or their local
   equivalents on your system:

     tar xzf Text-MicroMason-*.tar.gz
     cd Text-MicroMason-*
     perl Makefile.PL
     make test && sudo make install

SUPPORT
   If you have questions or feedback about this module, please feel free to
   contact the author at the below address. Although there is no formal
   support program, I do attempt to answer email promptly.

   I would be particularly interested in any suggestions towards improving
   the documentation, correcting any Perl-version or platform dependencies,
   as well as general feedback and suggested additions.

   Bug reports that contain a failing test case are greatly appreciated,
   and suggested patches will be promptly considered for inclusion in
   future releases.

   You can report bugs via the CPAN web tracking system, or send mail to
   "Dist=Text-MicroMason#rt.cpan.org", replacing "#" with "@".

     http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Text-MicroMason

   If you've found this module useful or have feedback about your
   experience with it, consider sharing your opinion with other Perl users
   by posting your comment to CPAN's ratings system.

     http://cpanratings.perl.org/rate/?distribution=Text-MicroMason

   For more general discussion, you may wish to post a message on PerlMonks
   or on the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.

     http://perlmonks.org/?node=Seekers%20of%20Perl%20Wisdom
     http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.perl.misc

AUTHOR
   Developed by Matthew Simon Cavalletto at Evolution Softworks. You may
   contact the author directly at "evo#cpan.org" or
   "simonm#cavalletto.org", replacing "#" with "@".

   Custom development and technical consulting are available at
   "www.evolutionsoftworks.com". More free Perl software is available at
   "www.evoscript.org".

THANKS
   My sincere thanks to the following users for their feedback:

     Pascal Barbedor
     Mark Hampton
     Philip King
     Daniel J. Wright
     William Kern
     Tommi Maekitalo
     Alan Ferrency

SOURCE MATERIAL
   Based on the superb HTML::Mason developed by Jonathan Swartz.

   Portions based on Text::Template developed by Mark Jason Dominus.

   Portions based on HTML::Template developed by Sam Tregar.

   Portions based on Embperl developed by Gerald Richter.

LICENSE
   Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Matthew Simon Cavalletto.

   Portions copyright 2001 Evolution Online Systems, Inc.

   You may use, modify, and distribute this software under the same terms
   as Perl.

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