[Templates] CGI/TT vs SSI

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 14:29:36 +0200

Hi, I'm currently using a mix of static HTML and TT driven CGI.

I want to streamline some things, especially using a standard menu based on an 
XML file.

What I'm after is efficiency, so my question is which is the most efficient way 
to do what I want.

The SSI approach would have to parse all .html as well as all .pl :
.html
<html>
stuff...

</html>

.tt/.cgi
<html>
stuff...
[% TTfun %]

</html>

The CGI/TT approach would have to treat all HTML documents as templates:
http://www.website.com/getFile.cgi?myDocument.tt
myDocument.tt
<html>
stuff...
[% TTfun %]
[% PROCESS menu %]
</html>

.tt/.cgi
<html>
stuff...
[% TTfun %]
[% PROCESS menu %]
</html>

After reading some of the things that Randall has suggested I was thinking about 
making the "menu" static, but then I have to rebuild after every change, and 
also lose a bit of dynamism.

I'm running a mod_perl environment.

Is this just a case of; "six of one, one-half dozen of the other" or is forcing 
a Template->process call on hapless static HTML, just to put in a menu, a bit of 
overkill?

THANKS!!!

Tosh

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Tosh Cooey
Twelve Hundred Group
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