Hey Martijn --
> Thanks for the idea, it works well and it doesn't increase
> the number of
> templates.
One thing to consider: In your single template file you now have one big
template with two parts, separated with a <TMPL_IF>. This forces you to
make one "upstream" decision:
$t->param('EXCEL' => 1) if (in_excel_mode());
If you have to make one decision, anyway, why not instead:
my $tmpl_file = (in_excel_mode()) ? 'csv.tmpl' : 'html.tmpl';
What is the down-side of having two separate template files? Yes, you would
have to edit them separately -- but you really have "two files in one" in
the single-file solution, anyway. In a single file both parts contain
redundancies which have to be edited separately, even though they are in the
same file!
For the marginal advantage of only opening a single file, you now have two
"file parts" which are each individually more complicated, as a result. It
is now more difficult to make changes to one, because you have to concern
yourself with the contents of the other.
IMHO,
-Jesse-
Jesse Erlbaum, CTO
Vanguard Media
http://www.vm.com
212.242.5317 x115
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