Petal - TAL for Perl
====================

Petal stands for "Perl Template Attribute Language". It is inspired from the
Zope Page Templates TAL specification, and lets you write elegant, WYSIWYG
friendly templates such as:

<ul petal:condition="user/list">
  <li petal:repeat="user user/list"
      petal:content="user/login">
    Dummy UserName
  </li>
</ul>

Petal by default processes XML template files (i.e. SVG, XHTML, VoiceXML,
whatever) using XML::Parser, however for convenience HTML is also supported
(using HTML::TreeBuilder).


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

Or better, use CPAN.pm


DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  HTML::TreeBuilder
  XML::Parser


CONTRIBUTORS

Those people (sorted by chronological order of first contribution) have helped
Petal under the form of suggestions, bug reports, patches or tests. Thanks to
everybody!

William McKee <william@knowmad.com>
Lucas Saud <lucas.marinho@uol.com.br>
Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
Paul Arzul <patricka@mkdoc.com>
Kurt Stephens <kstep@pepsdesign.com>
Steve Purkis <spurkis@mkdoc.com>
Holland, Mark <Mark.Holland@commerzbankib.com>
Ronald Hayden <rhayden@apple.com>
Peter Wilson <pwilson@apple.com>
Fergal Daly <fergal@esatclear.ie>
Grant McLean <grant@mclean.net.nz>

(hopefully I didn't forget anybody...)


MISCELLEANOUS

  Join the Petal community!
  http://lists.webarch.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/petal
 

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

  This module free software and is distributed under the
  same license as Perl itself.

  Copyright (C) 2003 MKDoc Holdings Ltd.

  Authors: Jean-Michel Hiver <jhiver@mkdoc.com>, 
           Fergal Daly <fergal@esatclear.ie>,
           and others.

