Text::Templar::Parser - a parser for generating a syntax tree from a Templar template
use Text::Templar::Parser;
my ( $templateContent, $parser, $syntaxTree );
### Open the template and inhale the whole file into templateContent
open TEMPLATE, "<template.tmpl";
{ local $/ = undef; $templateContent = <TEMPLATE>; }
close TEMPLATE;
### Get a new parser object use it to generate a syntax tree out of the
### template content
$parser = new Text::Templar::Parser;
$syntaxTree = $parser->parse( $templateContent );
Parse::RecDescent
Nothing.
This class is a Parse::RecDescent parser for generating a syntax tree out of Text::Templar templates. Text::Templar uses this syntax tree as the content of an object that can be used to generate the content specified by the template.
The parser works by parsing the parts of the template into 'nodes'. These nodes are chunks of the template that are blessed into a node class (eg., Text::Templar::METHOD, Text::Templar::FOREACH, etc.) and stored in an array. Each element of the array is a node with zero or more subnodes, depending on its type.
The classes that the nodes are blessed into aren't defined by the parser class, so if you wish them to be useful objects, you will have to create the classes yourself. See the TRIVIAL NODE CLASSES section of Text::Templar for more on how this works.
This needs more work.
$Id: Parser.pod,v 2.2 2001/04/24 00:49:28 deveiant Exp $
Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org> and Dave McCorkhill <scotus@FaerieMUD.org>
Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Michael Granger and The FaerieMUD Consortium. All rights reserved.
This module is free software. You may use, modify, and/or redistribute this software under the terms of the Perl Artistic License. (See http://language.perl.com/misc/Artistic.html)
