I repeat my bug report:

Not all templating systems are string-oriented. HTML::Seamstress is not. It works with HTML::Element instances. As such, it would be nice if the result of filling in the form could be returned as a tree for further processing by HTML::Element methods. As it stands, I am forced to parse the results of HTML::FillInForm back into a tree (even though it was a tree before HTML::FillInForm stringified it).

Now, just consider how much is being done.

1. seamstress has an HTML tree that it wants the form filled in on
2. seamstress converts this to a string
3. FillInForm parses the string into an HTML tree and then fills in the form
4. FillInForm converts the HTML tree to a string
5. seamstress re-parses the HTML for additional processing

If FillInForm could receive and return trees, my apps would be much faster.

For the time being, I at least need to turn this multiline process into a single function call, so here it is.

Of course,

# https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=44105
sub tree_fillinform {

    my ($tree, $hashref)=@_;
    
    my $html = $tree->as_HTML;
    my $new_html = HTML::FillInForm->fill(\$html, $hashref);
    HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($new_html);

}
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