[Gllug] Web Site Creation

[Aaron Trevena]

On 11/3/05, Henry Gilbert <henry.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/3/05, Richard W. M. Jones <rich at merjis.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm going to agree with Henry here and add that the Perl
> > Template::Toolkit is another way to go about templating, particularly
> > for static sites.

> Is Perl Template::Toolkit easier to use?
> What do I need to make it work locally on my machine?

TT provides a very nice, very clear templating language that is quick
and easy to learn.

Installation is trivial on any sensibly set up box (i.e. perl and cpan
installed) :

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Template'

Then search.cpan.org to find use plugins and install them via cpan in
the same way.

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

Yes. XSLT is for simple style changes and transforms to XML, it isn't
a general programming or templating solution whatever the zealots
claim.

A.
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug