Ben discovered two problems with using ElementTree for the WebHelpers
HTML generation:
- It outputs only XHTML, not HTML.
- You can't call str() on an element and get the serialized version,
you have to call .write(). While a Mako filter can be taught to do
that, it makes it less usable in other contexts.
One solution would be to make a wrapper that serializes on str(), and
just live with XHTML even if the page is HTML.
I looked at BeautifulSoup, but it's really a parsing/query tool than a
generator. There's only one serializing method, and who knows how it
decides whether to output <br /> or <br>.
Or we could write our own dual-mode serializer.
Or use Genshi, which outputs both XHTML and HTML. But Genshi requires
a complete XM document for input , and we're just generating snippets.
Or borrow the serializing code from Genshi and use it with ElementTree.
Or use one of the stan/nevow/breve type generators.
doc = T.div[
T.h1['Section ', results['secnum']],
T.p['Elements of type ', results['type'],
' should be coloured ', results['color']],
T.p['Contributed by: ', results['user']],
]
Any better ideas? Is there a tokenizing XHTML/HTML generator that's
pythonic and doesn't depend on C libraries?
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Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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