[htmltmpl] Re: H::T future

[Lance A. B. <la...@be...>]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:31, Karen J. Cravens wrote:
> Okay, I did think of a teeny-tiny thing I'd like to have.  It's not
> exactly an addition to H::T itself, though.
> 
> I occasionally find myself wanting to be able to define things in the
> template.  That is, setting parameters, a sort of tiny configuration file.
> 
> I've been meaning to write a standard bit of code to do something like
> that whenever I need some parameters that I don't want to hardcode, but
> that I don't really need a full-fledged configuration file manager for...
> something with just enough brains to parse a file, populate variables as
> needed, and recognize when the configuration ends and the template begins,
> and hand the rest of the file off to a new H::T instance.

Argh.  I can't remember where, but I ran across a Website package using
HTML::Template that had this feature.

The templates in the package have <TMPL_VALUE name="foo" value="bar">
tags and used a filter function to extract them from the templates and
insert them into the template params.  It was a very neat hack.

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