My interest is in generating HTML.

It seems to me that if one is using CGI.pm then one will probably not use Template-Toolkit very often, because their approaches are different.

CGI.pm aims to turn HTML tags into perl functions. Thus Print p('hello') generates the appropriate paragraph tags.

Template-toolkit, on the other hand, aims to leave markup as is and turn perl into markup. For instance, instead of saying in CGI.pm 

if (condition){
      print p('hello');
}

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it appears that one would say 
[% IF condition %]
      <p>hello</p>
[% end %]

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In cgi.pm, everything, including output, is a perl statement. In template-toolkit, nothing in the template is a perl statement, and all output appears through the template.

In my view, combining the two approaches would be very,very confusing.

Am I correct that those who use CGI.pm to generate a page do not also use template-toolkit at the same time to generate it?

In reply to Re: All Hail the Template Toolkit! by sierrathedog04
in thread All Hail the Template Toolkit! by clemburg

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