in reply to Re: Re: Templating Systems
in thread Templating Systems

The reason I don't want to use Mason is that I really really like the idea of separating code and HTML

Mason allows this but does not require it. There are numerous options for how to organize your code in a Mason site, including the following: 

<html>
  <head><title><% $title %></title</head>
  <body>
    <h1>Welcome to <% $sitename %>!</h1>
    <p>Our product of the day is <% $daily_product %>.</p>
  </body>
</html>

<%init>
  my $sitename = "Spuds.com";
  my $title = "Spuds Home Page";
  my $daily_product = get_daily_product();
</%init>

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This doesn't seem to be significantly more confusing than an HTML::Template would be, even for the "pretty picture designer guy" -- they just stay away from the %init block.

Although you may not need them at first, Mason also has a bunch of additional features that might prove useful at some time in the future... It's powerful enough to support large public sites.

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