This page collects information about Tcl applications and libraries that facilitate the processing of templates and/or [macro] files.

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A dedicated T/M processor is [expand] by [William Duquette]. '''Note''': The core of expand was added to [tcllib]/[textutil].

'''Tmac''' http://www.tclbuzz.com/v0/tmac is a general-purpose [macro] package for expanding and substituting Tcl code. - Roy Terry, 2 April 2003. There is also a wiki page devoted to tmac and to comments, suggestions and discussion: [Tmac - a Tcl macro processor package].

Two Tcl-based webservers, [TclHttpd] by [Brent Welch] and the [Kinetic Application Processor] by [AsiaInfo], incorporate template processors as a means to serve pages with dynamic content and to allow the imposition of a site-wide look & feel.

It is unclear how these three processors compare in features, speed, and other facilities.

Lest anyone forget, the [Apache Software Foundation] also has a project that utilizes Tcl as a web [scripting language]: [mod_dtcl] (see also [Apache] [Rivet] for the successor to mod_dtcl).

'''Tml'''[http://browsex.com/TML.html], which is part of [BrowseX], is a template processing system for both dynamic and static content.

[nstcl] implements the [OpenACS] templating system.

[Sugar] is a [Lisp]-like [macro] system for Tcl.
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[Koen Van Damme] announced in a post to [The comp.lang.tcl newsgroup] that he has written a preprocessor based upon Tcl to get more power than provided by the [C]/C++ preprocessor. See http://users.pandora.be/koen.vandamme1/index.html .

Related pages in this wiki are [Text Clipboard], [Code Generation], [Backquoting], [castle].
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[Category Word and Text Processing]