10.1. Introduction
HTML::Embperl (aka Embperl) is a Perl module that allows the execution of server-side programming code by embedding Perl code into HTML files. Embperl, written and maintained by Gerald Richter, can be found at http://perl.apache.org/embperl/.
A powerful feature of Embperl is that it is hooked into mod_perl. Most mod_perl features apply to Embperl, so if you know mod_perl, you need know only a bit more to use Embperl. As in mod_perl, the code in the page is compiled only the first time it is called (or when the file is modified), as is the case with Apache::Request programs with mod_perl.
The result of the compilation is cached so that the next time the page is requested, the Perl code does not need to be recompiled. It is ...
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