Or, instead of reinventing this functionality on top of a restrictive templating engine, you use one with a more powerful language such as the Template Toolkit, where you get reusability simply by defining the table template in a [% BLOCK foo %][% END %] and referring to it by [% INCLUDE foo %]. (You can pass parameters, as well. You could put the block in another file. And those are just some of the available options.)

Don't get me wrong, I used to be a fan of the restrictive approach. But at some point you realize that the templating engine really can't separate application logic from presentation logic for you, and that using a restrictive templating language just makes you jump through unnecessary hoops. I also find that if the templating language is not powerful enough, then presentation logic seeps back into the application — just like you just demonstrated.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: Reusable template components with HTML::Template by Aristotle
in thread Reusable template components with HTML::Template by dws

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