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Preface

1. Getting Started with Template Toolkit
What Template Toolkit Does
The Templating Ecosystem
Installing the Template Toolkit
Documentation and Support
Using the Template Toolkit
Processing Templates
Template Toolkit Language
Template Variables
Template Directives
Integrating and Extending the Template Toolkit

2. A Complete Web Site Using Template Toolkit
Getting Started
Template Components
Defining Variables
Generating Many Pages
Adding Headers and Footers Automatically
More Template Components
Wrapper and Layout Templates
Menu Components
Defining and Using Complex Data
Assessment

3. The Template Language
Template Syntax
Template Variables
Virtual Methods

4. Template Directives
Accessing Variables
Accessing External Templates and Files
Defining Local Template Blocks
Loops
Conditionals
Filters
Plugins
Macros
Template Metadata
Exception Handling
Flow Control
Debugging
Perl Blocks

5. Filters
Using Filters
Standard Template Toolkit Filters

6. Plugins
Using Plugins
Standard Template Toolkit Plugins

7. Anatomy of the Template Toolkit
Template Modules
The Runtime Engine
Module Interfaces

8. Extending the Template Toolkit
Using and Implementing Non-Core Components
Creating Filters
Creating Plugins
Building a New Front End
Changing the language

9. Acessing Databases
Using the DBI Plugin

10. XML
Simple XML Processsing
Creating XML Documents
Processing RSS files with XML.RSS
Processing XML documents with XML.DOM
Processing XML documents with XML.XPath
Processing XML documents with XML.LibXML
Using Views to Transform XML Content

11. Advanced Static Web Page Techniques
Getting Started
Library Templates
Content Templates
Navigation Components
Structuring Page Content
Creating a New Skin

12. Dynamic Web Content and Web Applications
CGI Scripts
CGI Templates
Apache and mod_perl
A Complete Web Application

Appendix: Configuration Options

Index