From: "Ragan, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Portions that > pertain to user-specific variables are "renamed" (or purposely misnamed, if > you will) TMPL_VAR's so they are not recognized and handled by H::T during > this pass. > > <my_special_VAR NAME=first> > > [then] > > $output =~ s/my_special_VAR/TMPL_VAR/g;
Steve, thanks. That might work for me. I'm not sure I'd want to pre-generate all the pages (and keep them in synch). Since I'm caching my own pages (by language), I could probably do the ->new, ->output, regex and ->new_scaler_ref when a page is not in the cache without too much slowdown on the first display of a page. The three things I've found that make multi-language processing difficult with H::T are: 1. One-time evaluation of a template's page-specific vars (so that subsequent displays can deal only in truly variable evaluations). 2. No way to say <tmpl_include name="constant_text_<tmpl_var name=LANG>"> to use language-specific text determined at run time. 3. No way to recurse variables which may have been evaluated with text that contains variables. #2 and 3 are troubling because, if I can't pull in fragments of a page (for a language), then I'm likely to use "Locale::Maketext" to provide me with what may be lengthy fragments. If the fragments contain markup (like a link), then I'm stuck because the fragment's link will contain an attribute: "title=<TMPL_VAR NAME=LINK_TITLE_TEXT>" which will not be evaluated. Feeding ->output back into new H::T objects can get around a lot of this. It would be a lot easier if those 3 features were available. They don't seem like they would require too much kludging. Thanks, Mark ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list Html-template-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
