Lately I am playing with the Template Toolkit. My task is to create XSL-FO using the toolkit and create PDF out of it's output via Apache's FOP.

I have a working solution but it looks clumsy to me. There should be a better way. 
#!perl
my $t=Template->new 
( 
    INCLUDE_PATH => 'c:/', 
    COMPILE_DIR  =>"c:/tt", 
    FILTERS      => 
    { 
        fop => sub 
        { 
            open OUT, ">tmpf"; 
            print OUT @_; 
            close OUT;
            
            $_ = `fop -fo tmpf -pdf test.pdf`; 
            
            unlink "tmpf";
            
            return $_;
        }
    }
);
#....

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The template: 
[%- FILTER fop -%]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

[%# do stuff %]

[% END %]

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holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Template Toolkit: Better way to call FOP by holli

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