My oh my, old sins do get visited upon us in eternity!

dragonchild, I must confess that for the second version of my intranet claims system, I have switched to Template::Toolkit, but it still outputs XML and this XML still gets tranformed into HTML through the services of XSLT and CSS.

The reason I (finally) switched to a templating system was that is allowed me to write more "condensed" code, i.e. lots of back-ground functions get "glossed over" by using the template-constructs (such as connecting to the database; managing arrays and hashes; ...).

I'm still not entirely happy with the ideas behind templating systems,nor with the practical implementations, but untill I have lots of free time and start writing it myself, I will have to use and make-do with what exists! That being said Template::Toolkit is certainly one of the better templating systems around.