2.4. Generating Many Pages

The tpage program is fine for processing single templates, but isn't really designed to handle the many pages that comprise a typical web site. For this, ttree is much more appropriate. It works by drilling down through a source directory of your choosing, looking for templates to process. The output generated is saved in a corresponding file in a separate destination directory.

In addition to working well with a large number of template files, ttree also provides a much greater range of configuration options that allow you to modify the behavior of the Template Toolkit when processing templates. This allows you to further simplify the process of generating and maintaining web content in a number of interesting ways that we'll explore throughout this section.