Perl templates with inheritance

inheritance, perl, templates

Solution

I'll second the suggestion for Text::Xslate. Its syntax is even quite similar to your Jinja2 examples:

In `layouts/main.tx`:

...
<div id="page">
  : block sidebar -> { }
  <div id="content">
    : block header-> { <h1>Default Title</h1> }
    : block content -> { }
  </div>
</div>
...

In another template:

: cascade layouts::main
: override header -> {
<div id="header">
...
</div>
: }

: override content -> {
<div id="content-body">
...
</div>
: }

Problem

Exists in the Perl world any template system with template inheritance? Just checked in the wikipedia Comparison_of_web_template_engines (really incomplete list) - and here isn't listed any. Inheritance = Supports the ability to inherit a layout from a parent template, separately overriding arbitrary sections of the parent template's content. Mean something like python's Jinja2: ``` #body.html <body> {% block content %} <!-- the content go here --> {% endblock %} </body> #hi.html {% extends "body.html" %} {% block content %} <h1>Hi!</h1> {% endblock %} ``` rendering `hi.html` gives ``` <body> <h1>Hi!</h1> </body> ``` Don't looking for exact Jinja2 syntax, simply looking for any template engine from the perl world what supports inheritance. (not only plain includes - like Template::Toolkit) Asking here because searching CPAN is a pain for words like "template inheritance" - shows thousands modules what not related to this question. Ps: ... and it shouldn't be something like embedded perl - should be "user editable" allowing users builds own templates without compromise a whole system - therefore can't use Mason or HTML::Mason)

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