Hello, I'm new to Embperl (though it seems to be a case of love at first
sight).
I'm trying to get a handle on Recipes and Providers. I gather that
in order for something to be able to be Provided, it needs to have
a Syntax module for it, in order for a Recipe to be able to use it.
What I want to be able to do, is for Embperl to be able to read in
plain text files and convert them to HTML. But I don't want to reinvent
the wheel, since there are perfectly good perl modules which have
already been written to do that (such as HTML::TextToHTML).
But the impression I get from the manuals is that one can't use another
module, that you have to reinvent the wheel and write a Syntax module
in order to parse a plain-text file. Which is Not Good.
Of course, I know that one could sort of do it in a quick-and-dirty
way by reading in the desired plain-text file into a scalar, processing
it with HTML::TextToHTML and then doing whatever you want to it,
but I would like to do it the proper Embperl 2.x way, with Recipes
and Providers, so that it could be reusable and passed on to other
people to use.
Kathryn Andersen
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