TEMPLATE TOOLKIT PLUGINS

Simon Matthews <sam@knowledgepool.com> has developed a DBI plugin for the Template Toolkit which brings the full power of Tim Bunce's <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> database interface module (DBI) to your templates. The DBI plugin and the DBI modules themselves are available from CPAN at:

http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAM/
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/

The CGI plugin is a wrapper around Lincoln Stein's <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu> CGI.pm module. The plugin is distributed with the Template Toolkit (see Template::Plugin::CGI) and the CGI module itself is distributed with recent versions Perl, or is available from CPAN.

The XML::DOM plugin gives access to the XML Document Object Module via Clark Cooper <cooper@sch.ge.com> and Enno Derksen's <enno@att.com> XML::DOM module. The plugin is distributed with the Template Toolkit (see Template::Plugin::XML::DOM) and requires the XML::DOM module, available from CPAN:

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML

The XML::RSS plugin is a simple interface to Jonathan Eisenzopf's <eisen@pobox.com> XML::RSS module. An RSS (Rich Site Summary) file is typically used to store short news 'headlines' describing different links within a site. This plugin allows you to parse RSS files and format the contents accordingly using templates. The plugin is distributed with the Template Toolkit (see Template::Plugin::XML::RSS) and requires the XML::RSS module, also available from CPAN:

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML