Frank Wiles wrote:
What I typically recommend to people is that they use a template
engine like Template-Toolkit.org. You simply pass it a Perl data
structure and then you have all of the same transformation
possibilities as XSLT ( at least as I understand it ). And if you
ever need the data as XML, you simply create a template for
that ( or pass a special option to your handlers to return XML,
etc. ).
FWIW TT doesn't quite have the same transformation possibilities as XSLT
(and on the flip side, XSLT doesn't quite have the same data input
possibilities as TT). There's quite a big gap between the two in terms
of those concepts.
I prefer the XSLT way - there's WAY too much code creeps into TT
stylesheets for my liking (it may be the TT syntax, but it's still
code), but mileage definitely varies on the opinions there.
Personally I prefer TAL (AxKit2 supports TAL for XML) for the simple
stuff, and XSLT for the more complex stuff.
Matt.
