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HTML-TEMPLATE
Created by Edi on: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:54:30 GMT, Last modification: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:54:30 GMT

A library to use templates much like Perl's HTML::Template.

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Version	-
Maturity	Stable
OS compatibility
ASDF installable	Yes
Official Download	http://weitz.de/files/html-template.tar.gz
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HTML-TEMPLATE is a portable library for Common Lisp which can be used to fill templates with arbitrary (string) values at runtime. (Actually, it doesn't matter whether the result is HTML. It's just very likely that this will be what the library is mostly used for.)

It is loosely modeled after the Perl module HTML::Template and compatible with a subset of its syntax, i.e. it should be possible to use your HTML-TEMPLATE templates with HTML::Template as well (but usually not the other way around).

HTML-TEMPLATE translates templates into efficient closures which can be re-used as often as needed. It uses an intelligent cache mechanism so you can nevertheless update templates while your program is running and have the changes take effect immediately.

The rationale behind something like HTML-TEMPLATE or HTML::Template is that you want to separate code and layout (I think in Newspeak these are called the "Business Layer" and the "Presentation Layer") as much as possible when generating HTML, especially if you work with graphical artists who are responsible for the visual appearance of your site but aren't programmers. Matter of fact, you can't separate code and layout completely. I've worked (or had to work) with several different approaches over the years, including emitting HTML from CGI scripts directly, using tools like Embperl, Mason, PHP (yuk!), or Java/XML/XLST stuff, or employing different Lisp markup languages but found that HTML::Template's approach usually works best for me: The graphical designers only need to learn a minimal set of new tags (three of them) and can update their templates independently from the work done on the backend. It is simple and it just works. YMMV, of course...

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Edi Weitz

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Web Development | Text Processing | BSD license

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