[Petal] Creating template from string

Gauthier Groult gauthier at lynch.dnsalias.org
Thu Jul 21 14:46:47 BST 2005


Michael Graham wrote:

>I'm the author of CGI::Application::Plugin::AnyTemplate, which tries to
>create a unified template API for CGI::Application.  Currently it
>supports HTML::Template, Template::Toolkit and Petal.
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>Where possible, I've tried to smooth over the API differences between
>the modules so that the user can switch templating systems without
>changing application code.
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>One feature that I haven't been able to emulate in Petal is the ability
>to create a template from a string instead of a file.
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>There doesn't seem to be a way to do this in Petal, short of writing the
>string to a temporary file and then passing the file to Petal.
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>Is this something that could be supported in Petal some day?
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>It's a useful feature for authors who want to bundle a default set of
>generic templates in the .pm file of their application.
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This feature would also be very useful for applications that need to 
generate templates dynamically.

g

>Michael
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>Michael Graham <magog at the-wire.com>
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