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=head1 Main features of HTML::Embperl 1.2

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Lets you embed Perl code into HTML documents. Perl code is
evaluated at the server side and the result is sent to the browser.


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Offers various meta-commands for conditional and loop 
processing of the HTML documents.


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Automatically generates dynamic HTML tables/lists from Perl arrays or
function calls (e.g. DBI fetch)


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Form data send to your document is placed in a hash


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Automatically inserts data from the form hash into HTML input,
textarea and select tags


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Understands HTML and URL escaping and unescaping

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Handles per-user and per-module persistent session data for you.
All you need to do is store and retrieve them to and from
a special hash.

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Allows you to build your web-site out of components. Frequently used elements
can be defined once and included in every page.

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Gives you the possibility to build libraries with a set of frequently used 
Elements or components, and make them available to the whole web-site in the
same way as Perl modules are - well, modularized.

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Supports debugging of pages by generating a very detailed
log file and making it accessible via the browser with a single click.

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Generates verbose error pages in which every error can link 
to the log file. This is ideal for debugging.

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Offers a lot of options for maximum configurability according to your personal tastes and needs.

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Fully integrated into Apache and mod_perl to acheive the best
performance. Can also run as a CGI-script, offline or called from
another Perl program.

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The Perl module DBIx::Recordset offers high level, easy to handle
database access for Embperl.

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If you are concerned about security you can configure Embperl to use
Safe.pm. This way, your documents can run in a safe namespace which
can allow or disallow certain Perl opcodes.


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