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ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW VERSION: HTML::Template 0.02

NAME

  HTML::Template - a Perl module to use HTML Templates

CHANGES

  0.02  Mon May 31 12:47:00 1999
       - a few minor bugs fixed
       - die on multiple source parameters in new()
       - tries to preserve newlines in loop body
       - copies in array contents from array refs on param call
         i.e. allows for reuse of scratch arrays on calling side
       - Added a CREDITS section to the docs, inaugurated it with
         Richard Chen for his many fixes.
       - Added type => 'sometype', source => 'source' new() syntax.
       - made "NAME=" in tags optional.  Added a test.pl to check for
         this.


DESCRIPTION

  This module attempts to make using HTML templates simple and
  natural.  It extends standard HTML with a few new tags - <TMPL_VAR>
  and <TMPL_LOOP>.  The file written with HTML and these new tags is
  called a template.  It is usually saved separate from your script -
  possibly even created by someone else!  Using this module you fill
  in the values for the variables and loops declared in the template.
  This allows you to seperate design - the HTML - from the data,
  which you generate in the Perl script.

  This module is licenced under the GPL.  See the LICENCE section
  of the README.


AVAILABILITY

  The module is available on CPAN.  You can get it using CPAN.pm or
  go to:


http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAMTREGAR/HTML_Template-0.01.tar.gz


MOTIVATION

  It is true that there are a number of packages out there to do HTML
  templates.  On the one hand you have things like HTML::Embperl
  which allows you freely mix Perl with HTML.  On the other hand lie
  home-grown variable substitution solutions.  Hopefully the module
  can find a place between the two.

  One advantage of this module over a full HTML::Embperl-esque
  solution is that it enforces an important divide - design and
  programming.  By limiting the programmer to just using simple
  variables and loops in the HTML, the template remains accessible to
  designers and other non-perl people.  The use of HTML-esque syntax
  goes further to make the format understandable to others.  In the
  future this similarity could be used to extend existing HTML
  editors/analyzers to support this syntax.

  An advantage of this module over home-grown tag-replacement schemes
  is the support for loops.  In my work I am often called on to
  produce tables of data in html.  Producing them using simplistic
  HTML templates results in CGIs containing lots of HTML since the
  HTML itself could not represent loops.  The introduction of loop
  statements in the HTML simplifies this situation considerably.  The
  designer can layout a single row and the programmer can fill it in
  as many times as necessary - all they must agree on is the
  parameter names.

  For all that, I think the best thing about this module is that it
  does just one thing and it does it quickly and carefully.  It
  doesn't try to replace Perl and HTML, it just augments them to
  interact a little better.  And it's pretty fast.


DOCUMENTATION

  The documentation is in Template.pm in the form of POD format
  perldocs.  Even the above text might be out of date, so be sure to
  check the perldocs for the straight truth.


CONTACT INFO

  This module was written by Sam Tregar ([email protected]) for Vanguard
  Media (http://www.vm.com).


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