At 10:41 AM 07/16/2002 +0100, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: >Hi list, > > I am glad to announce the first release of Petal, the Perl Template > Attribute Language module. You will find a rather copious > documentation here: > > http://search.cpan.org/doc/JHIVER/Petal-0.1/lib/Petal.pm > > It should be pretty stable, however the more people have a play with > it the more likely I am to be aware of potential bugs :-) Tell me what > you think!
Interesting work, cheers. I'm curious though, why you've chosen to implement it as a handler for XML::Parser rather than as a SAX Handler (or even better, a Filter)? What SAX buys (among other things) is the ability for folks to invisibly use whatever XML parser is installed, including a pure Perl implementation. Doing Petal as a SAX Filter would mean that it would be totally easy to add it to the mix in things like AxKit and custom SAX pipeline publishing systems. So, doing complex, multi-stage transformations like My::NonXML::SAXGenerator -> Petal -> SomeXSLT -> SomeOtherXSLT come for free. Anyway, just random thoughts, really. Petal seems nice and it seems a shame to lock it in the XML::Parser-based-one-off jail. -kip Kip Hampton Perl and XML: http://xml.com/pub/q/perlxml AxKit: http://axkit.org/ Join Us In San Diego! http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2533
