' and 'C' member. The C<FOREACH> directive iterates
through the list, aliasing 'C<page>' to each item (in this case, hash array
references). The C<[% page.url %]> and C<[% page.title %]> directives then
access the individual values in the hash arrays and insert them into the
document.
=head2 Using tpage
Having created a template file we can now process it to generate some real
output. The quickest and easiest way to do this is to use the
L<tpage|Template::Tools::tpage> script. This is provided as part of the
Template Toolkit and should be installed in your usual Perl bin directory.
Assuming you saved your template file as F<example.html>, you would run
the command:
$ tpage example.html
This will process the template file, sending the output to C<STDOUT> (i.e.
whizzing past you on the screen). You may want to redirect the output to a
file but be careful not to specify the same name as the template file, or
you'll overwrite it. You may want to use one prefix for your templates (e.g.
'C<.tt>') and another (e.g. 'C<.html>') for the output files.
$ tpage example.tt > example.html
Or you can redirect the output to another directory. e.g.
$ tpage templates/example.tt > html/example.html
The output generated would look like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>This is an HTML example
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