Heya,
I've thus caught the Test::More and Co bug and find myself wanting to
add tests to almost every part of my proggy.
One part of the proggy that I'd love to test are my template files.
It seems of good value to test the structure of the templates, as
user contributions from people who may not be quite familiar with the
templates, but still want to add something, may introduce new
formatting bugs. I'm hoping there's a already existing strategy for
doing this. I've tried something like this test:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Test::HTML::Lint tests => 1;
my $html = q{
<table>
<!-- tmpl_loop foo -->
<tr <!-- tmpl_if __odd__ -->style="background-color:#ccf;"<!--/
tmpl_if-->>
<td>
Something.
</td>
</tr>
<!--/tmpl_loop-->
</table>
};
html_ok($html, "We're good.");
Which, when run, returns something like:
Justins-Computer:/t justin$ perl HTML_Template_test.t
1..1
not ok 1 - We're good.
# Failed test 'We're good.'
# in HTML_Template_test.t at line 19.
# Errors: We're good.
# (8:5) </tr> with no opening <tr>
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
Removing the, "<!-- tmpl_if __odd__ -->style="background-
color:#ccf;"<!--/tmpl_if-->" from the HTML snippet seems to make the
test pass.
Obviously, this isn't a bug in HTML::Template, if anything, it's a
bug in HTML::Lint - although I'll have to see if HTML comments are
valid markup inside other HTML tags. Even if they are, the test is
returning an incorrect error. HTML::Lint hasn't been updated in a
while and has a few open bugs, so I don't know if this is the best
solution to my needs.
Just passing the template to HTML::Template will tell me if the
template is accepted and there's no problems with the <tmpl_*> tags,
but it's not going to tell me anything about the rest of the HTML.
Does anyone else have a better strategy for testing the structure of
their HTML::Template templates? I'm wondering what the potential of
the block tags making the template itself have inconsistent HTML
structure. Probably fairly great, although it may be an interesting
thing to enforce; (most) any template could be included without
problem in (most) any other template.
Justin Simoni
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