[htmltmpl] Announce: HTML::Template::Dumper

[Timm M. <tm...@ag...>]

As previously discussed on Perl Monks 
(http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=307736), HTML::Template::Dumper 
is almost ready for upload on CPAN.  This module subclasses HTML::Template 
to dump out the data structure used to fill in the template in a serialized 
form.  Once a remote script deserializes the stream, writing tests against 
it is as easy as walking the resulting hash.

Note that this has nothing to do with the overall design of the page.  For 
that, you really need a human.  This module only deals with the output that 
would go into TMPL_* tags.

The underlining HTML::Template methods for new(), param(), and output() are 
still called, so the template data is loaded and attributes like 'strict' 
and 'die_on_bad_params' are still respected.

The POD has changed slightly since the posting above on Perl Monks, though 
most things are the same.

I'll have this up on CPAN soon.  PAUSE doesn't seem to be working 
ATM.  Until then, I have a temporary downloads here:

http://www.wumpus-cave.net/downloads/HTML-Template-Dumper-0.1.tar.gz
http://www.wumpus-cave.net/downloads/HTML-Template-Dumper-0.1.tar.bz2

This was developed internally by me at my employer (the American Society of 
Agronomy, www.agronomy.org), who graciously allowed it to be made into a 
public release.

Thanks,
Timm Murray