IMHO, the only clean way of fully separating content/business logic and presentation is by having your Perl-scripts provide XML-data (this is the content/business logic part) and then transforming this XML into HTML (this is thr presentation part) by using XSLT and CSS. This can be done server-side (think of Axkit) or client-side (e.g. IE 6). I find it much better than a templating system, which always feels either a bit restricted or too complicated, but never entirely right.

And of course XMS, XSLT, ... are hip buzzwords and mucho liked by PHB.

CountZero

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In reply to Re: Multi tiered web applications in Perl by CountZero
in thread Multi tiered web applications in Perl by pernod

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