Re: [htmltmpl] Testing HTML::Template templates

[Justin S. <ju...@sk...>]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 3:51 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> that's good, are you also aware of the perl-qa mailing list?

I had a hunch there'd be a Kult of Kwality Assurancers for Perl :)

> Why not test the result, after processing using HTML::Template?
> That's what is really important.

The problem with testing them after they're parsed is that, depending  
on the return values of any and every <tmpl_if> and friends block,  
the return'd HTML would be different. I'm thinking that most every  
HTML::Template template is actually valid HTML structurally, even  
with the block statements and thus can be tested for valid structure.  
HTML::Lint at least barfs on the embedded comments inside HTML tags.  
That, of itself may not be valid HTML, in which case I've gotten a  
dead end.

Justin Simoni
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On Sep 11, 2006, at 3:51 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> On 9/11/06, Justin Simoni <ju...@sk...> wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> I've thus caught the Test::More and Co bug and find myself wanting to
>> add tests to almost every part of my proggy.
>
> that's good, are you also aware of the perl-qa mailing list?
>
>> html_ok($html, "We're good.");
>
> I am not sure why do you want your templates to be Lint-able?
> It might be "nice" but it does not seem to add business value.
>
> Why not test the result, after processing using HTML::Template?
> That's what is really important.
>
> Gabor
>
>