On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:17:12AM +0000, Andy Wardley wrote: > I always thought the name related to the fact that the embedded tags > are designed to look just like HTML tags. You can generate non-HTML, > text but you have to use HTML-like tags to do it.
I haven't tried, but IIRC you can actually use the H::T filter option to deal with (almost) any tag format you like. > Personally, I think this is all wrong. I want my template tags to stand > out against the background, not blend into it. But the HTML::Template > docs seem to imply that this is a positive feature becuase HTML designers > are already familiar with HTML tags. Personally I quite like <!-- TMPL_VAR ... --> because in my syntax coloured html files they stand out quite nicely. It also means that if you're feeling fussy, you can validate a H::T template as valid HTML > I guess we all have different opinions about what's right and wrong[*]. Yes, we seem to. -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Buy 'em books, and they eat the w: www.herlpacker.co.uk | fscking covers. gpg: D167E7FE |
