HTML::Template::Pro - Perl/XS module to use HTML Templates from CGI scripts

       I. Vlasenko, <viy@altlinux.org>

       with contributions of Bruni Emiliano, <info at ebruni.it> Stanislav Yadykin, <tosick at altlinux.ru>
       Viacheslav Sheveliov <slavash at aha.ru> Shigeki Morimoto <shigeki.morimoto at mixi.co.jp> Kirill Rebenok
       <kirill at rebenok.pl>

       See "BUGS" in HTML::Template::PerlInterface

       Copyright (C) 2005-2021 by I. Yu. Vlasenko.  Pieces of code in Pro.pm and documentation of HTML::Template
       are copyright (C) 2000-2002 Sam Tregar (sam@tregar.com)

       The template syntax, interface conventions and a large piece of documentation of HTML::Template::Pro are
       based on CPAN module HTML::Template by Sam Tregar, sam@tregar.com.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the LGPL2+ or under
       the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5
       you may have available.

perl v5.40.0                                       2024-10-20                           HTML::Template::Pro(3pm)

       Original HTML::Template is written by Sam Tregar, sam@tregar.com with contributions of many people
       mentioned there.  Their efforts caused HTML::Template to be mature html tempate engine which separate
       perl code and html design.  Yet powerful, HTML::Template is slow, especially if mod_perl isn't available
       or in case of disk usage and memory limitations.

       HTML::Template::Pro is a fast lightweight C/Perl+XS reimplementation of HTML::Template (as of 2.9) and
       HTML::Template::Expr (as of 0.0.7).  It is not intended to be a complete replacement, but to be a fast
       implementation of HTML::Template if you don't need querying, the extended facility of HTML::Template.
       Designed for heavy upload, resource limitations, abcence of mod_perl.

       HTML::Template::Pro has complete support of filters and HTML::Template::Expr's tag EXPR="<expression>",
       including user-defined functions and construction <TMPL_INCLUDE EXPR="...">.

       HTML::Template work cycle uses 2 steps. First, it loads and parse template.  Then it accepts param()
       calls until you call output().  output() is its second phase where it produces a page from the parsed
       tree of template, obtained in the 1st step.

       HTML::Template::Pro loads, parse and outputs template on fly, when you call $tmpl->output(), in one pass.
       The corresponding code is written in C and glued to Perl using Perl+XS. As a result, comparing to
       HTML::Template in ordinary calls, it runs 10-25 times faster. Comparing to HTML::Template with all
       caching enabled under mod_perl, it still 1-3 times faster. At that HTML::Template caching requires
       considerable amount of memory (per process, shareable, or on disk) to be permanently filled with parsed
       trees, whereas HTML::Template::Pro don't consumes memory for caches and use mmap() for reading templates
       on disk.

       Introduction to HTML::Template and syntax of template files is described in HTML::Template::SYNTAX.  Perl
       interface of HTML::Template and HTML::Template::Pro is described in HTML::Template::PerlInterface.

       HTML::Template::Pro - Perl/XS module to use HTML Templates from CGI scripts

       HTML::Template::SYNTAX, HTML::Template::PerlInterface.

       Progect page is http://html-tmpl-pro.sourceforge.net
        (and http://sourceforge.net/projects/html-tmpl-pro)

       Original modules are HTML::Template, HTML::Template::Expr.  Their progect page is
       http://html-template.sourceforge.net

       It is moved out and split.

       See "SYNOPSIS" in HTML::Template::SYNTAX for introduction to HTML::Template and syntax of template files.

       See "SYNOPSIS" in HTML::Template::PerlInterface for perl interface of HTML::Template,
       HTML::Template::Expr and HTML::Template::Pro.