> > Newly I did something with Enhydra (Java Servlets) and they
> have a pretty
> > neat templating system: They use standard HTML and one uses the "id"
> > attribute in HTML tags to access them and manipulate
> values/contents.
> > [...]
> > Does anybody know something similar for Perl?
>
> No, but I was thinking of incorporating enhydra's XMLC technology into
> AxKit. I'm not sure its a better method of working than XSLT or
> XPathScript though, which allows you to be future looking (always
> XML). But it could be kinda neat to do. Should be almost trivial with
> HTML::Parser to generate perl out of that. Providing of
> course they don't
> have some stupid patent on it (doubtful since its GPL'd).
>
> Can you wait, or do you need something now?
As you know projects must be finished until yesterday. It would be a dream
if we could share the templates between Enhydra and Perl. The only problem I
see here is the performance. Enhydra compiles the java and the HTML pages
and creates methods and a DOM model. Doing this on the fly (for mod_perl)
would be a big drawback in performance. Maybe there should be some kind of
precompiling.
How long do you think would this last? I could wait for about 3 hours or so
;-)
The problem with many templating systems is the fact that they invent a new
language like "<td>$variable</td>" which is usually not displayable in the
Browser so that the designer and the programmer must work tightly.
What other templating systems do exists that are usefull?
...darko
