On Feb 6, 2008 11:24 AM, Philip Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Feb 4, 9:34 am, Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi!
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> > What can I use to fill in forms when using Genshi in Pylons? htmlfill
> > is mentioned a lot, but I can't find any examples of how to use it
> > from Pylons. Seems Genshi also has it's own form filler but again, I
> > can't find any examples of how to use this in Pylons (if it's
> > possible).
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> OK I waited a couple of days to see if someone else would post the
> right way to do this. Not much so I'll offer up how I do it (that is
> a warning!)
I think we need a Genshi Task Force to beef up the Pylons/Genshi docs.
I tried to use Genshi in an application but couldn't find simple
solutions for things like:
- Setting the page title/breadcrumbs/javascript for the site
template from the controller or page template. Match templates are
hard to understand, and you're in a dilemma whether to "really" output
the value in the site template or page template, because in some cases
one makes more sense and in some the other.
- Having to wrap values in genshi.XML() in disparate parts of the
app to prevent them from being escaped later, which ties the
controller/library code too closely to a particular template engine.
- Form handling.
I wanted to use Genshi for its input validation and smart escaping,
but when I asked a couple Pylons/Genshi questions on the Genshi list
and didn't get a response for a couple days, I switched to Mako
because the manual is much more complete, Pylons developers have a lot
of experience with it, and you get answers on the mailing list
remarkably quickly. Genshi or the Pylons/Genshi users need to do this
if they want to see its adoption rate among Pylons users increase.
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Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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