Re: design patters with mod_perl

[Matt Sergeant <suppressed>]

Frank Wiles wrote:
>   What I typically recommend to people is that they use a template
>   engine like Template-Toolkit.org.  You simply pass it a Perl data
>   structure and then you have all of the same transformation
>   possibilities as XSLT ( at least as I understand it ).  And if you
>   ever need the data as XML, you simply create a template for 
>   that ( or pass a special option to your handlers to return XML,
>   etc. ). 

FWIW TT doesn't quite have the same transformation possibilities as XSLT 
(and on the flip side, XSLT doesn't quite have the same data input 
possibilities as TT). There's quite a big gap between the two in terms 
of those concepts.

I prefer the XSLT way - there's WAY too much code creeps into TT 
stylesheets for my liking (it may be the TT syntax, but it's still 
code), but mileage definitely varies on the opinions there.

Personally I prefer TAL (AxKit2 supports TAL for XML) for the simple 
stuff, and XSLT for the more complex stuff.

Matt.