I run an intranet site which gets data on marine claims out of a database. The various perl scripts generate XML output which are then transformed by XSLT into pure HTML (and CSS provides for the standard look as per our corporation's "look and feel" guidelines).I run one large XSLT file for all the webpages and if something global needs to be changed I do it in one place and everything follows.

Recently a customer requested that certain columns on the webpages needed to be summed. This only was a small change in the XSLT and nothing had to be changed in the scripts. Now you probably are going to say that you could just as easily have amended the template (but probably many different templates needed to be adapted) and you are probably right. But XSLT has a lot more possibilities than any templating system. In that, it is less (or even not at all) a mark-up language (certainly not a pure mark-up language) than a programming language in its own right.

Yes it means you have to learn an extra language, but I happen to like it and it provides nice buzzwords to pacify the PHB!

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to Re: •Re: Re: Re: Re: HTML::Template - what's the rule of thumb? by CountZero
in thread HTML::Template - what's the rule of thumb? by kiat

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