Re: Simple HTML Generation: Please Advise

[jarich]

First of all I approve whole heartedly about your choice of using CGI::Simple. As everyone would know the document for CGI.pm includes the paragraph:

This module has grown large and monolithic. Furthermore it's doing many things, such as handling URLs, parsing CGI input, writing HTML, etc., that are also done in the LWP modules. It should be discarded in favor of the CGI::* modules, but somehow I continue to work on it.

But, as you said, you'll need something else to handle HTML creation. I agree with dws that you should definately consider HTML::Template because you want to use templates of some description or another.

Unfortunately no templating system can completely remove the requirement to create a certain amount of HTML yourself. You can either use heredocs or something else... if you're using CGI::Simple, I'd suggest looking at XML::Generator or, if you really want something more like what CGI lets you do HTML::AsSubs. XML::Generator refers to HTML::Generator which sounds ideal but doesn't seem to exist. :(

Of course for a simple suggestion as you've asked HTML::Seamstress might also be interesting.

Hope these help.

jarich