OT: Templating systems (was RE: [Catalyst] New default screen for Catalyst)

[Christopher Hicks]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Sam Vilain wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 17:46 +0200, arnaud at underlands.org wrote:
>>> Personally, I don't see how HTML::Template is any different from how I
>>> use TT, except:
>>> 1. It's more verbose <TMPL_VAR NAME=FOO> versus [% foo %]
>> It *enforces* a stronger separation between code and presentation.
>
> I would disagree with this.  I think by being so inflexible, it just 
> shifts a lot of the presentation work into the code that feeds the data 
> to the page.  In my view I should be able to substitute the HTML 
> template with an XML template and not worry about whether the code that 
> pre-prepares the HTML to put in the template needs to change.

Amen.  HTML::Template has driven up the wall with this intentional 
limitation and every time I run into it I whine about lack of templating 
system interchangability.  We need a SAX for Perl's templating systems, 
but getting the factions to buy off would be a political miracle.

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