Shannon, Bryan wrote: > [...] the output files that I'm INSERTing are getting larger all the time > (hundreds and hundreds of megs)
As you correctly observe, there's no way around the fact that TT builds the output into a string without some deep hacking that will break things all over the place. The best I can offer is a way to take the problem outside TT... Instead of inserting the contents of the file you could insert the file name into the output, suitably wrapped up in some kind of marker which you can identify for post-processing. So instead of: [% INSERT $some.big.file %] you write something like: [% bigfile(some.big.file) %] with a macro defined something like this: [% MACRO bigfile(file) GET "<bigfile:$file>" %] Your output then gets littered with directives like: <bigfile:name/of/some/big/file> Then you take the output from the Template process() method (or write a Template subclass which provides a wrapper around the process() method) and write it direct to a file. While you're doing this, you look for any '<bigfile:xxx>' directives in the text and insert the contents of the relevant files, chunk-by-chunk to avoid loading the whole thing into memory. I admit it's a little crazy to writing your own mini-template post-processor to work around a limitation in TT, but it shouldn't be too hard and would at least give you something that works. In TT3 (here I go again), the output buffer will be a list instead of a string. Directives will be able to push objects and/or subs onto the output buffer in addition to plain text items. So you could write a directive which pushes a "BigAssFile" object onto the output instead of the file content iteself. The objects/subs get called right at the end of the process when TT builds the final output. If you're writing the output to a file then your objects will get passed the file pointer and will be able to write the BigAssFile content line-by-line direct to disk. A _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/templates
