Re^2: Thinking Aloud About HTML::Template

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and suggestions.

I took a look at Petal, which I don't think exactly meets the brief as it uses non-valid attributes, but Seamstress (a word I haven't heard since "Tiny Dancer" incidentally) would appear to be roughly what I had in mind.

($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

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Re^3: Thinking Aloud About HTML::Template by grantm (Parson) on Aug 02, 2004 at 02:00 UTC
I took a look at Petal, which I don't think exactly meets the brief as it uses non-valid attributes What's the problem with non-valid attributes? A web browser that doesn't recognise an attribute will ignore it - exactly what you want. The great thing about Petal is that you can put realistic dummy content within the tags in your template. When Petal runs, it replaces the content from the template with the data from your script. But if you view the template directly in a browser or a WYSIWIG HTML authoring tool, the dummy content will be displayed instead.	[reply]
Re^4: Thinking Aloud About HTML::Template by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Aug 02, 2004 at 02:05 UTC
What's the problem with non-valid attributes? A web browser that doesn't recognise an attribute will ignore it - exactly what you want. In a word, "validation". A web-developer doesn't want to validate a document and skip 43 "invalid attribute" warnings. Also you might want to use XHTML, where invalid code would choke an XML Parser or an XSLT transformation entirely. My point about Seamstress is that it uses valid attributes, that is, the "ID" attribute, to do the same thing. Unless I totally missed the point in my quick look. ($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss') =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print	[reply]
Re^5: Thinking Aloud About HTML::Template by grantm (Parson) on Aug 02, 2004 at 08:12 UTC
Since the special attributes used by Petal are in their own namespace, it would be pretty easy to strip them out before submitting the template to a validator. But it's rather a bogus argument since the thing you want to validate is the output from a template processor, not the input. I recommended Petal because in my experience it plays nicely with GUI authoring tools.	[reply]