Is there a small Perl XML parser that can replace CGI.pm's HTML generation functions?

Question

Is there any little (1-2 .pm's) parser based around XML::* and suitable for replacing CGI.pm's constructions like:

foreach($xmlnodes) {
    print table( TR( td( $_) ) ); }

with node2html($node,$rules)?

I ain't going to fire up XSLT.

Answer 1

Whenever you want to find modules, search CPAN. Have a look around, and see what you like. The more you do it, the better sense of the landscape you'll have. Soon, you won't even have to ask. :)

I'm not sure what you are asking about, though, because you say "parser" but it seems that you want to go the other way. If you want to rewrite XML, I might recommend XML::Twig.

Answer 2

Is it push style templating you're thinking of? ie. take a plain HTML file as the template and using CSS or XSLT selectors to push content into it?

If so then two CPAN modules I've used to do this are:

• HTML::Zoom
• Template::Semantic

Also see the Perlmonks post called Push style templating systems which provides more information including a list of push style templates available.

If not push style then are you looking for HTML builders? If so see this Stackoverflow question: CL-WHO-like HTML templating for other languages?

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