It should be easier for a designer to get an answer to the question:
"What tokens do I have available?"
I think there is a fairly reasonable way to make this easier.
A <tmpl_dump> tag could be added which outputs all the possible
tmpl_loop tmpl_var names, along with their values, right in the
template.
When the designer is done with this reference, it can be removed.
I think the hard part of this implementation is already done, in the
form of HTML::Template::Dumper which does basically just this.
It can output human-friendly YAML, which could simply be wrapped
in a <pre> tag to complete the presentation.
All that's left to be done is to add the glue that supports calling this
from a new tag.
This is another example of a nice feature that could be implemented with
a plugin system.
I have contacted the author of HTML::Template::Set to see if he would
like to make a plugin version of that extension as well.
A sample of using HTML::Template::Dumper is below.
Mark
# Sample HTMl::Template::Dumper script and output
#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib './lib';
use HTML::Template::Dumper;
my $t = HTML::Template::Dumper->new(
scalarref => \'<tmpl_var outer><tmpl_loop deloop><tmpl_var
inner></tmpl_loop>',
);
$t->set_output_format('YAML');
$t->param(
outer => 'My Outer',
deloop => [ { inner => 'First Inner', }, { inner => 'Second Inner'} ],
);
print $t->output();
# output
--- #YAML:1.0
deloop:
- inner: First Inner
- inner: Second Inner
outer: My Outer
--
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