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Conclusion

  1. All HTML generation tasks can be performed via tree rewriting.

  2. Tree rewriting is the last invasive means of marking up HTML with

    programmer hints.
  3. There are no magic ghosts with tree rewriting: what you do is what you get.

  4. The tree rewriting requires no knowledge of a templating system

Goodbye to limitations or idiosyncrasies, hello full power of Perl for complex display logic tasks.

5. Thanks to Sean Burke for writing HTML::TreeBuilder and writing about trees.
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