Perl Template Toolkit
by Darren Chamberlain, David Cross, Andy Wardley

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
booktech@oreilly.com.  Please specify the printing date of your copy.

This page was updated October 5, 2004.

Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification



Confirmed errors:


{22}  Example 1-9 line 12;
my $vars should be closed with } and not ].


{32}  First example on page;
[% header('Arthur Dent', 'My Home Page') %]

should be:

[% header('My Home Page', 'Arthur Dent') %]


(34) Paragraph below code; 
the Musciano & Kennedy book is referred to as "HTML & XML", but it should be "HTML & XHTML"


[46]  2.line and  17.line;
2 th line:
$ tpage -f ttree.cfg
Should be:
$ ttree -f ttree.cfg

17 th line
$ tpage -f dentweb
Should be:
$ ttree -f dentweb 



(66)  example 2-23;
The two "PROCESS menu..." directives should be indented by a couple
more spaces:

  <table border="0">
  [%
      PROCESS menuitem
        text = 'Earth'
        link = 'earth.html';

      PROCESS menuitem
        text = 'Magrethea'
        link = 'magrethea.html';
  %]
  </table>

   ...etc...



(68)  example 2-24;
The final "BLOCK icon" section is indented incorrectly.
The "INCLUDE" should be indented 2 spaces inside the "BLOCK"

  [% BLOCK icon
       INCLUDE image
         src = ...etc...
         ...

         height=4;
     END
  %]



{84}, in Figure 3-1, the last entry of the table reads:

star    [*    *>

This should be:

star    [*    *]



(111)  Files listed in in "component" section;
The POD formatting codes F<> are visible on the file names:

  A F<foo> Template
  A F<footer> Template



(114)  example 3-11;
The indenting in this example is wrong.  The BLOCK items defined
inside the VIEW should be indented, as should the items defined in
the 'people' list, at the end of ex 3-11 on page 115.


(128), push() method;
The push() method is stuck at the end of the list methods.  Everything else is in 
alphabetical order.


{183}  Output from Example 5-13;
Example 5-13 shows some text that is passed through an HTML entity-izing filter, the
example is a price written in UK pounds, the pound sign in the price should be
converted to the correct HTML pound entity to demonstrate the filter.

The output of the example still shows the original pound sign instead the correct pound entity.


(300) under 'Static Filters'
the sentence:
 Here is a simple Perl subroutine...which rot13's text
should be:
 Here is a simple Perl subroutine...which rot13s text



(402)  Example 11-9;
For consistency with example 11-6, the $* should be changed to $@, so the example
should read:
ttree -f [% dir %]/etc/ttree.cfg $@



{420}  Example 11-37;
Example should start with:
[% META title = 'Debug Table'
        about = 'Debugging page for table components'
-%]
to match output generated in figure 11-2


{420}  Listing 11-37, 2nd last line;
...
    END;
  END
%]

should read
...
   END;
  END;  # insert semi-colon
%]



{428}  Example 11-44. Listing;
The previous item of an FOREACH iteration is found by loop.prev _NOT_ by loop.last.
So the example should be spelled:

# set next/last if this is the actual page
page.prev = map.page.${loop.prev};


{464}  bottom of page after </table>;
add "</p>"  below the </table> tag


[514]  Example 12-35 top of page 514;

    $r->internal_redirect($url);

should be:

    $r->internal_redirect($url);
    return OK; 



(519 and 520) of the Template Toolkit book: 
COMPILE_EXT comes before COMPILE_DIR.  They should be swapped alphabetically.



{560} DEFAULT in index;

DEFAULT dirrective, 54 525

should be:

DEFAULT,   525
DEFAULT directive,  54


(562)  first column, under "filename";
capitalisation: 

"FIle plugin" 
should be 
"File plugin"



(575)  David Cross biography;
The title of David's book is given as "_Data Munging_ with Perl"; the entire title
should be in italics, not just the first two words.

(575), Colophon, 2nd para, last sentence.

...tree roots in their way as they digs.
should be:
...tree roots in their way as they dig.