Re: [htmltmpl] Wrapper functionality

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

There are a number of reasons why this is a bad thing, among them:
- performance -> you cant make user of cached templates
- error messages can be extremenly cryptic.

That said, I maintain a modified version of H::T which does include this 
feature - you can download it from here:

  http://members.optusnet.com.au/~mathew

Mathew



John Wang wrote:

> I've been using HTML::Template for a while now and am familiar 
> TMPL_INCL. If you wanted the main template to be nested inside an 
> "outer" template, say one that contained the header, footer, and 
> navigation, you could do that in Perl: instantiate HTML::Template 
> twice and put the output of one as a param in another.
>
> Just recently I did a little playing around with TT and found it's 
> WRAPPER directive very useful. It basically does the same thing but 
> because it's built into the templating system, it's a lot cleaner.
>
> This seems a useful and basic enough feature that I was wondering if 
> there was a reason it wasn't included with HTML::Template? 
> Performance, something else?
>
> Just curious,
> John