I don't want to jump on something too quickly, being somewhat
unproven, but it's a nice thing to have with GHRML being dead and HAML
being Ruby only. I'll keep an eye on this!
What plans do you have for future improvement?
Dave
On Nov 27, 1:08 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would like to announce an early version ofShowellMarkup. It
> allows you or your designer to create web pages without the visual
> clutter of </table>, </ol>, {% endfor %}, {% endwith %}, and friends.
>
> Unlike templating solutions that compete with Django, theShowell
> Markup plays nice with Django and still delegates all the heavy
> lifting to Django, so you still get variable interpolation, extends,
> custom filter tags, include, etc. from Django.
>
> ShowellMarkup just does two jobs and does them well:
>
> 1. Allow for indentation-based blocking (both for HTML and Django
> tags)
> 2. Allow for clean HTML one-liners that truly separate markup from
> content.
>
> The implementation ofShowellMarkup is just a preprocessor to publish
> Django templates. You edit theShowellMarkup from a master file and
> then publish the templates to their locations within the Django
> directory structure and you're done. You can keep both markups under
> source control. The preprocessor writes clean markup, so you can
> debug at the Django level as needed. Also, you are not forced to
> useShowellidioms everywhere; normal Django and HTML still passes through
> the preprocessor without modification.
>
> You can find the implementation here:
>
> http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1819/
>
> The indentation feature is, of course, inspired by Python/YAML/HAML/
> etc.
>
> The one-liner syntax is inspired by Django's use of pipes to implement
> filters.
>
> Here are some examples (some of which look better in a monospace
> font)...
>
> You can use indentation syntax for HTML tags like table.
>
> Instead of this...
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>
> Right
> </td>
> <td>
> Center
> </td>
> <td>
> Left
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> You can write DRY code this...
>
> >> table
> >> tr
> >> td
> Right
> >> td
> Center
> >> td
> Left
>
> Lists work the same way, and note that attributes are not a
> problem.
>
> Instead of this...
>
> <div class="spinnable">
> <ul>
> <li id="item1">
> One
> </li>
> <li id="item2">
> Two
> </li>
> </ul>
> </div>
>
> You can write DRY code this...
>
> >> div class="spinnable"
> >> ul
> >> li id="item1"
> One
> >> li id="item2"
> Two
>
> This tool should play nice with most templating engines, but it
> has
> specific support for Django.
>
> Instead of this...
>
> {% extends 'base.html' %}
> {% load smartif %}
>
> {% block body %}
> {% for book in books %}
> {{ book }}
> {% endfor %}
>
> {% if condition %}
> Display this
> {% elif condition %}
> Display that
> {% else %}
> {% include 'other.html' %}
> {% endif %}
> {% endblock %}
>
> You can write DRY code this...
>
> %% extends 'base.html'
> %% load smartif
>
> %% block body
> %% for book in books
> {{ book }}
>
> %% if condition
> Display this
> %% elif condition
> Display that
> %% else
> %% include 'other.html'
>
> The tool also lets you dry up individual lines of HTML using a
> piping concept. Note the clean separation between markup and
> content.
>
> Instead of this...
>
> <tr class="header_row">
> <th class="first_column">Original Author</th>
> <th>Commenters</th>
> <th>Title</th>
> <th>Action</th>
> <th>Last words</th>
> <th>By</th>
> <th>When</th>
> </tr>
>
> <ol class="boring_list">
> <li>One</li>
> <li>Two</li>
> <li>Three</li>
> <li>{{ element4|join:',' }}</li>
> </ol>
>
> You can write DRY code this...
>
> >> tr class="header_row"
> Original Author | th class="first_column"
> Commenters | th
> Title | th
> Action | th
> Last words | th
> By | th
> When | th
>
> >> ol class="boring_list"
> One | li
> Two | li
> Three | li
> {{ element4|join:',' }} | li
>
> Pipes get applied from right to left, as you would expect.
> You can also throw a br on at the end.
>
> Instead of this...
>
> <span class="greeting"><b>Hello World!</b></span><br />
> <span class="parting_words"><i>Goodbye World!</i></span><br />
> <hr />
> <p class="praise">
> Indentation-based syntax is so
> Pythonic!
> </p>
>
> You can write DRY code this...
>
> Hello World! | b | span class="greeting" ; br
> Goodbye World! | i | span class="parting_words"; br
> ; hr
> >> p class="praise"
> Indentation-based syntax is so
> Pythonic!
>
> There are three special shortcuts for LINK, FORM, and HIDDEN.
> You could easily extend the preprocessor to do more.
>
> Instead of this...
>
> <a href="{% url collection.archive referral.pk %}">Archive</a>
> <a href="{% url home.home %}">Home</a>
> <a href="{% url friendship.friends %}">Friends</a>
> <a href="{% url referrals.create %}">Create a card</a>
> <a href="{% url activity.recent_changes %}">Recent changes</a>
>
> <form action="{% url referrals.create %}" method="POST">
> {{ form.as_p }}
> <input type="hidden" name="referral"
> value="{{ referral.id }}" />
> </form>
>
> You can write DRY code this...
>
> Archive LINK collection.archive referral.pk
> Home LINK home.home
> Friends LINK friendship.friends
> Create a card LINK referrals.create
> Recent changes LINK activity.recent_changes
>
> >> FORM referrals.create
> {{ form.as_p }}
> {{ referral.id } | HIDDEN referral
>
> I am calling the markupShowellMarkup for now, but a better name
> might be in order. "Showell" rhymes with "towel." It is my username,
> and hopefully it "shows well" too.
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