On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Simon McGregor wrote:
> I am interested in the feasibility of
> grafting our syntax onto the TT engine and making it publicly
> available.
The difficulty of migrating from an existing template system depends on
how complicated your existing template code is.
Things to remember:
- Template toolkit processing directives are not perl. But you can
configure TT to use perl with the EVAL_PERL option.
- TT can use inline '$vars'. For example
Hello $foo, welcome to our web page
See the INTERPOLATE option.
- TT can use different tags. If [% %] isn't to your liking then use
other tags. See the TAG_STYLE option.
- TT filters (with the latest version of TT) are really easy to
write. Maybe you could write a module
package Template::Plugin::OldTemplateSystem;
use base qw(Template::Plugin::Filter);
sub filter
{
my $self = shift;
my $text = shift;
... process text though your old template system ...
return $text;
}
... and then in TT (after USEing the module) ...
[% FILTER OldTemplateSystem %]
... your old template code ...
[% END %]
- Maybe you can write something that allows you to use your
existing template system to create TT templates.
Hope that's of some help.
Mark.
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Mark Fowler
Technology Developer
http://www.indicosoftware.com/
