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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by dougw <do...@cnation.com> on 2000/09/22 22:59:35 UTC

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache::XPP 2.00 (new package)

I apologise, stupid typo.
Apache::XPP not Apache, DOH!

--
Doug Weimer

dougw wrote:
> 
>  The URL:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11363&release_id=12224
> 
>  has entered CPAN as
>          file: $CPAN/authors/id/C/CN/CNATION/Apache-XPP-2.00.tar.gz
>          size: 36657 bytes
>          md5:  07c2d7a921f2c5e578b7be34acdaec58
> 
>  Apache::XPP is an embedded perl language designed to co-exist with
> HTML.
> 
> See
>  http://opensource.cnation.com/projects/XPP/ for more information.
> 
>  - XPP stands for 'XPP Parses Perl' or 'XPML Page Parser', and is a
> fast/efficient HTML parser that parses embedded
> perl, as well as HTML like tags, from dynamic html pages called XPML
> pages.
> 
>  - XPP supports arbitrary Perl within XPML Pages as well as XPP tags
> which are easier for HTML programmers to write.
> Even though XPP allows non-perl tags, XPP remains blazingly fast by
> converting all XPP tags to Perl code, compiling
> the page and caching the compiled page in memory. Each application can
> create its own XPP tags specific to that
> application.
> 
>  - XPP supports a flexible include mechanism for including other files
> or URLs which can also be parsed or include
> other included files.
> 
>  - XPP also supports a flexible caching model, letting you write your
> own caching and expiry schemes in same way
> people write DBD modules for DBI.