Bingo!

Of course one could think more about the API, but i love it already. It is really what i had in mind.

For maximum flexibility one could add shebang detection: 
    my $tpi = TPI->new( dsn => 'tpd:Mason:/my/files/' );

    $tpi->register( 'TPD::HTML_Mason', shebang => '#!mason' );
    $tpi->register( 'TPD::TT', shebang => '#!tt' );
    $tpi->register( 'TPD::HTML_Template', shebang => '#!htmpl' );
    $tpi->register( 'TPD::PETAL', shebang => '#!petal' );
 
    $tpi->variables( author => 'a', title => 'b' );

    print $tpi->interpolate( <<'END_HERE' );
#!mason

Welcome <% $author %>
END_HERE

    print $tpi->interpolate( <<'END_HERE' );
#!htmpl

Welcome <TMPL_VAR author>
END_HERE

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Of course the TPD driver could translate ie. looop variables n'stuff.

I am convinced that ~90% demand nothing more than the basic functionality from the templating engine. And so one could unify all the tons of api to just TPI.


I am convinced this would be fastly adopted/standard as DBI.

Anybody setting up a ml?

Murat

In reply to Re: Re: 1001 CPAN Template modules by Anonymous Monk
in thread 1001 CPAN Template modules by Anonymous Monk

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