Re: [htmltmpl] Whitespace (linefeed) suppression?

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

> > I don't think you're saying this, but doesn't your decision =
ultimately mean
> > legibility of the template is outside the scope of H::T? On the one =
hand
> > you're saying H::T does exactly what you tell it to do. On the other =
hand,
> > if you write it legibly but don't like all the artifacts in your =
output,
> > then don't write it legibly. Is that reasonable?
>=20
> That sounds ok, but I would add that if you want to write your
> templates in one style and see output in another then you are
> perfectly free to do so.  Just write some code that takes the HTML
> from output() and modifies it to your specifications.  Or,
> alternately, write a filter which you can pass to
> HTML::Template->new() to fixup the template before it's seen by
> HTML::Template.

I'd second this design - it would be relatively easy to make a filter =
which stripped out whitespace between TMPL tags and normal text, based =
on some sort of rules.  That way, your templates look good, and your =
html output looks good.

For what its worth: our company strips all irrelevant whitespace, as =
well as html and javascript comments from our HTML based reports -> this =
usually results in a 30% reduction in the resulting HTML; we then use =
mod_gzip for a further bandwidth reduction.

Mathew

PS. if a filter is written to accomodate this requirement, please =
forward it to me so that I can add it to the other filters in the =
H::T:Filters package.