- Template Toolkit
The Template Toolkit (TT) is a fast and flexible
template engine used primarily for building web sites but also suitable for any type of digital document creation likePDF orLaTeX . Template Toolkit, or TT for short, is based on a mini-language, rather than allowing direct perl like some of its competitors like Mason. This forces developers to only have presentation logic in their templates, and move business logic into perl libraries. It is written inPerl , with some popular accessories in C, and released under afree software licence (Perl Artistic Licence orGPL ).It's also a popular choice as templating system for various perl application frameworks, including the
Catalyst MVC Framework , and theMaypole framework .The Template Toolkit was written by
Andy Wardley . The "prototype" for TT (the Text::MetaText Perl module) was released in 1996. The first version of TT proper was released in 1999. Version 2.00 was released in 2001. Version 3 is currently in development.External links
* [http://template-toolkit.org/ Template Toolkit Web Site]
* [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Toolkit/ Template Toolkit on the CPAN]
* [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/ "Perl Template Toolkit" book] (ISBN 0-596-00476-1)
* [http://wardley.org/ Andy Wardley's Web Site]
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