Re: [htmltmpl] wish: <tmpl_dump>

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> It should be easier for a designer to get an answer to the question:
> "What tokens do I have available?" 
> 
> I think there is a fairly reasonable way to make this easier. 
> 
> A <tmpl_dump> tag could be added which outputs all the possible
> tmpl_loop tmpl_var names, along with their values, right in the
> template.

It sounds nice but I'd personally find it pretty useless.  Most of my
use of HTML::Template involves inspecting the template with query()
and setting up the variables and loops that are actually requested.
This is how Krang works, for example.

> It can output human-friendly YAML, which could simply be wrapped
> in a <pre> tag to complete the presentation.

Heh.  Human-friendly YAML, huh?  I'd aim for something a little
friendlier than that - like formatted HTML.

BTW - your pluggable stuff looks great.  I'm fresh out of time to look
at it more closely but I think you're on the right track.  I'm not
completely convinced it belongs in-core yet, if only because that
would put you at the mercy of my absurdly slow release schedule...

-sam