Re: [cgiapp] CGI::Application::XML

[Darin McBride <suppressed>]

On November 24, 2003 03:19 pm, Jesse Erlbaum wrote:
> Hi Josh --
>
> > How is this an improvement over CGI::XMLApplication? Can you get your
> > improvements into C'XA so there isn't a code fork? If there is some
> > reason to not use CGI'XA in favor of C'A'X you should really document
> > that in your pod and provide the pros and cons for each.
>
> IMHO, the author of CGI::XMLApplication should have used
> CGI::Application in the first place.

No bias here.  ;->>>

> I think you could have a winner here.  When I read about
> CGI::XMLApplication a few months ago I nearly wrote the same thing.  The
> only reason I didn't is because I don't use XSLT.  ;-)  HTML::Template
> rocks.

And this, I think, is where many users have wished for C::A to be
separated from H::T.  Then it would make much more sense to graft XML,
H::T, Text::Template, etc., in subclasses:

CGI::Application
   +-- CGI::Application::XML
   | +-- CGI::Application::XMLtoHTML
   |      (has the ability to transform XML to HTML via XSLT)
   +-- CGI::Application::HtmlTemplate
   +-- CGI::Application::TextTemplate
   +-- etc.

The theory would be that CGI::Application::HtmlTemplate would be a
drop-in (or near-drop-in) replacement from C::A today.

I've been tempted a number of times to start a new project that
mirrored C::A except tore out H::T, relegating it to a subclass.  The
main reason I haven't is simply that I use H::T ;-)




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