Re^2: mini-languages for MVC view/controller manipulation

[simonm]

This doesn't seem like much of a problem; either leave the extra whitespace out of your source files, or mark the extra lines in some way and remove them before processing.

Version one looks like this:

Hi
<TMPL_IF foo><TMPL_INCLUDE foo.txt>
</TMPL_IF>Hello

Version two looks like this:

Hi
\
<TMPL_IF foo>\
<TMPL_INCLUDE foo.txt>
</TMPL_IF>\
\
Hello

  ... $in =~ s/\\\n[\t ]*//g; ...

Doesn't this same issue apply to most templating packages, or am I missing something about why this is more of an issue for HTML::Template than the others?

[hardburn]

Doesn't this same issue apply to most templating packages . . . ?

Probably. If there is anything special about H::T, it's that its default tag syntax is a bit lengthy. Compare to Text::BasicTemplate:

Hi

%if foo%include%fi%

Hello

(Note that Text::BasicTemplate doesn't have an equivilent to TMPL_INCLUDE by default, though it can call out to Perl subroutines.)

That's a much more condensed example that, IMHO, works better for plaintext.