[htmltmpl] Feature Idea [TMPL_VIRTUAL]

[Jason P. <ja...@jo...>]

How about a new tag, either as part of the standard distribution or a 
plugin:

TMPL_VIRTUAL

The one thing that I like when I'm doing PHP pages is that I can build 
singular dynamic components and simply include them from the parent 
template.

i.e.

# FILE: index.php
<? virtual( 'helloworld.php' ); ?>


# FILE: helloworld.php
<? print "Hello World!"; ?>

Yes, I know about Philipp's Widgets articles[1] on perl.com, but you 
still need to put the encapsulation logic in your code, which seems 
redundant.

How about if the HTML_VIRTUAL called LWP to request the URL and replace 
the tag w/ the response's content?

# FILE: index.TMPL
<!-- TMPL_VIRTUAL URL="helloworld.php" -->

# FILE: helloworld.php
<? print "Hello World!"; ?>

- Jason

[1]: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/02/02/htmltemplate-widgets.html