Petal

The Free Perl solution for your XML Templating needs

Petal does:

• Take some well-formed XML template
• Cross it with a Perl structure (hashes, lists, objects...)
• Output well-formed XML result

Petal is:

• Written in Perl
• Free, Open Source, placed under the Perl artistic license
• Parsing input using either XML::Parser or HTML::Tree
• Rendering either XML or XHTML output
• Implementing the TAL specification
• WYSIWYG Friendly
• Reasonably Fast

Petal makes people say:

• Petal walks all over other template systems and is a brilliant tool. (Mark Holland)
• You've done a fantastic job, and I appreciate your willingness to keep Petal aligned with TAL. (Evan Simpson)
• I've been playing with Petal for about three weeks now and I must confess that I'm sold. (Christopher Raymond Baker)

Try it!

It's Cool. It's Free. The smart kids do it.

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Petal'

Once it's installed, you can do:

perldoc Petal

And then you can join the mailing list or just take a look at the archives.