Text::Tmpl - Fast templating library.

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Description

Text::Tmpl is a module for very fast templating. There are dozens of templating modules on CPAN, each only a tiny bit different from the others. This one is no different - what sets it aside is speed. The entire module is implemented as a C library, with only a thin XS/Perl layer to make the calls available from Perl. The same templates, then, can be used from either Perl or C/C++ programs.

This was originally designed to completely isolate HTML programmers from module/CGI programmers, or at least completely separate logic from content in dynamic web applications. It is syntactically based on a similar system written by a friend of mine, Neil Mix, which was proprietary and exclusively written in Perl. It shares no code in common with this system, or any other.

Prerequisites

A C compiler and Perl 5. Unix (and derivative) and Win32 systems are supported as of 0.24.

Building

# perl Makefile.PL
# make

Installing

# make test
# make install

The C library version is not built or installed by default. If you want to use it, you can build install it by hand. Something like this ought to work:

# ar cr libtmpl.a context.o default_tags.o nclist.o parser.o staglist.o \

tagplist.o template.o varlist.o tokens.o # ranlib libtmpl.a
# cp libtmpl.a /usr/local/lib
# cp *.h /usr/local/include

This is only intended as a guide; it may very well require modification for use on your system.

Additional Information

If you're using this module, let me know! It's always fascinating to hear what uses people have found for it.

There's a lot of example perl code in the t/ (test scripts) directory in this distribution. There's also a little bit of example C and C++ code in the examples/ directory of the distribution.

You can contact me directly at dlowe@saturn5.com. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

If there's enough demand, I will create a mailing list for discussion/support. Let me know if this interests you.