May be one could minimize everything to a very very small core.

If you did that, you'd essentially come up with HTML::Template. People have obviously decided that, for whatever reason, HTML::Template doesn't solve their problems and have looked elsewhere.

I do not see why your arguments weren't the same for DBI/DBD which was a hit.

Even though various relational databases do the details differently, their conceptual functionality is the same, and they even use the same query language (more or less) to get the job done. Further, Cobb laid down the basic functionality an RDBMS must provide. The abstraction is straightforward (even if the implementation is difficult).

Although you could make the decision that a template system should generate a defined output for a given input, the details of how this is acomplished vary so widely that I doubt it would work. It would have to be so far abstracted from the real template system that nobody except HTML::Template users would be happy with it. (Which is a long, rambling way of getting back to my first point).

----
: () { :|:& };:

Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated

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

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.