Thanks Christoph, That did just the trick. -Chris On 8/12/06, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Lee-Messer wrote: > > I am experimenting with generating html fragments for an ajax > > interface using kid. > > I therefore do not need a doctype and closing body. > > I can't figure out how to do this from within the kid framework, and I > > don't see away at getting at the underlying structure---something like > > an elementtree ? Currently, I'm having kid generate the xml and then > > I'm cutting off the header and footer in outside code so as to just > > get the html inside the <body> </body> tags. My method seems > > inefficient and brittle. > > You can easily serialize XML without doctype and XML declaration: > > serializer = kid.XMLSerializer(decl=False) > print your_template.serialize() > > You can also do this with the HTML serializer: > > serializer = kid.HTMLSerializer() > serializer.doctype = None > print your_template.serialize() > > If you want to get rid of the root element and only output the inner > fragment (i.e. head and body in a HTML document), you must "strip" it > from the element stream: > > stream = kid.ElementStream(my_template.Template()) > stream = stream.strip() > print serializer.serialize(stream) > > If you want only the body element, you must "eat" the head element: > > stream = kid.ElementStream(my_template.Template()) > stream = kid.ElementStream(stream.strip()).eat() > print serializer.serialize(stream) > > You can strip() once more to get only the elements inside the body. > > Hope that helps. > > -- Christoph > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > kid-template-discuss mailing list > kid-template-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kid-template-discuss >
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