In an ideal web system, the HTML used to build a web page would be kept distinct from the application logic populating the web page. This module tries to achieve this by taking over the chore of merging runtime data with a static html template. Template can contain SSI derectives like and It is used ZM::SSI for SSI parsing. If module ZM::SSI not installed SSI derectives will be ignoring.

The ZM::Template module can address the following template scenarios :

Single values assigned to tokens

Multiple values assigned to tokens (as in html table rows)

Single pages built from multiple templates (ie: header, footer, body)

html tables with runtime determined number of columns

An template consists of 2 parts; the boilerplate and the tokens (place holders) where the variable data will sit.