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Subject: Re: is there a templating system that....
From: Perrin Harkins <perrin@elem.com>
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On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 15:45 -0500, David Nicol wrote:
>      my $output = $TemplateCache{$template_name};
>      $output =~ s/\[(\w+)\]/$InsertableVariables{$1}/g;
>      print $output;

The second it gets more complex than that, stop and use one from CPAN.

> SSI sounds like PHP.

PHP is a full-fledged programming language.  SSI is a venerable system
for doing simple variable substitutions and includes in web pages, and
you already have it.  With apache 2, you can use it as a filter after
your perl handler.

Here's an intro:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2005/07/07/apache_xssi.html

- Perrin