The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: HTML::Macro
DSLIP: MdpOp
description: processes HTML templates
userid: SOKOLOV (Michael Sokolov)
chapterid: 15 (World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI)
communities:
comp.lang.perl.modules
similar:
HTML::Template
rationale:
HTML::Macro is provides functionality similar to the C
pre-processor (with the addition of looping constructs). It provides
macro-level programming capabilities, allowing some simple
programming facilities (variable substitution, conditionals, file
interpolation) to be built in to HTML templates while reserving more
complex code for a separate perl file.
HTML::Macro is almost completely identical in spirit to
HTML::Template. In fact, I think it's a testament to the value of
this software that it was independently invented in (at least) two
places. Both packages seem to implement the same programming
constructs and share the same philosophy of separating perl code
from HTML formatting. In fact it's kind of scary. If I hadn't
already developed this module to the point where it is completely
functional I would probably just use HTML::Template. As it is, there
are some things I think are better in this module:
1) conditional expressions may be arbitrary Perl 2) The Perl you
use for populating loops is easier to understand (IMO) than
HTML::Template's. In particular, it is easy to use with DBI, which
is how we usually use it. 3) Finally, HTML::Macro implements has a
special quoting facility not present in HTML::Template. This
postpones evaluation of its code so that templates can be processed
in several passes. This is useful in a "meta-template" used to
generate other templates.
enteredby: SOKOLOV (Michael Sokolov)
enteredon: Wed Jul 11 02:43:51 2001 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
HTML::
::Macro MdpOp processes HTML templates SOKOLOV
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