Re: H::T future (was Re: [htmltmpl] xml complant tags)

[Mathew R. <mat...@re...>]

> speaking of which, I have often wondered what could be improved in =
H-T,=20
> and have failed to come up with anything. It just seems to be that=20
> perfect program that does perfectly what it said to do. Simple to=20
> install and understand, well-documented, and fast. In fact, imho, it=20
> should be made a core part of Perl as is CGI.pm.
>=20
> But, since not being able to visualize the form of H-T's future might =
be=20
> due to my lack of imagination, I am curious -- what are the ways in=20
> which the developer-kind want to see H-T to be in a few years/versions =

> or so...


Attached is my local copy of H::T which includes some changes which may =
or may not be of use.  The changes include:

- TMPL_ELSIF tag, eg <TMPL_ELSIF somevar>
- support for custom tags, eg <TMPL_CATGETS ...>
- trailing slash in tags, aka <TMPL... />
- TVPL_VAR support for HTML=3DTEXT which allows paragraphs of text to be =
formatted to respect newlines
- dot syntax, eg 'user.name'
- dot syntax with autovivification of leading template variable, eg =
'user.name' results in autovivification of 'user'

I have included documentation to support the enhancements.
Also, I have bumped the revision number to 2.7 so as to indicate a =
non-standard release.

Feel free to suggest / flame me.
Mathew