[Gllug] Web Site Creation

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:33:28AM +0000, Henry Gilbert wrote:
> Is Perl Template::Toolkit easier to use?
> 
> What do I need to make it work locally on my machine?

Dave Cross will kill me for saying this, but you can install and learn
template toolkit very easily just by reading the manual.  Install
using, eg.,

  sudo apt-get install libtemplate-perl{,-doc}

then read the manual pages:

  man ttree
  man Template

'ttree' is the static front-end - good for generating static web
pages.  It's unlucky you didn't ask me about this yesterday, because I
used to have a nice little Makefile set up for generating static
websites using ttree, but it's on my old computer which is being
dismantled and rebuilt at the moment.

> It took me a long to realize XML/XSLT to be the pants - hideously
> unmaintable for generating static content.

That would be XSL, the poor imitation of CDuce ...

Rich.

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