Updates, new module, TT2 and S5 support

[email protected] (Jochen Stenzel) Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:38:01 +0100
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Hello,

I just released several updates both on CPAN and SourceForge.

Updates for PP::Package, PP::Generator::XML and
PP::Generator::XML::XHTML besides fixes most importantly bring these
changes:

    * all XML based generators now encode entities where necessary,
    * XHML formatted output can be produced using templates (was
      documented before but impossible),
    * nested tables are allowed for XHTML output;
    * the multiple target converter was renamed from pp2tdo to
      perlpoint, as a preparation for a precompiled package built with
      PAR utilities (all the pp2... converters are supported without
      change! This is just for users looking for a simple to install
      utility with a memorable tool name);

Please see the change logs for more details.

More, styles can be written using Template Toolkit now, with the new
support layer PP::Template::TT2. It is considered a beta due to lacking
tests and docs. Nevertheless, it can be *used* and works, as shown by
the new demo style S5 in the updated styles package. This style, as the
name suggests, allows to produce S5 presentations with PerlPoint. Please
see the overview.pp file in the docs directory of the S5 style in the
styles distribution for details how to do that. (In short, use this
style, produce into a separate target directory and copy an S5 ui
directory to there.)

                  Jochen



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