At 12:20 PM 6/3/2005 -0400, James Y Knight wrote: >Just inserting all the whitespace from the original document into the >DOM is a pretty safe thing to do, but it'd be nice to not have to do >that, as you end up with excessive numbers of text nodes that have no >meaning.
PWT (peak.web.templates) deals with this by concatenating all non-dynamic nodes into a single "literal" (i.e. unescaped) text node. PWT also isn't anything like a traditional DOM, in that it's a hierarchical structure, but that structure need not resemble the document structure in any way. So, if you guys manage to come up with a decent HTML parser, I'll be interested in gluing it to PWT, as long as it can deal with XML namespaces. PWT trees are currently constructed with expat, but the actual template components don't know anything about parsing and don't care. (Another difference between PWT and other DOM-based templating systems is that in PWT, a component is more like a function than a data structure. Instead of code receiving DOM data structures, they receive the moral equivalent of function parameters; so they can invoke them and pass parameters in, but they can't directly manipulate the DOM structure, because it's not a DOM structure. So, the Python code parts are largely immune to presentational concerns; they can't even *see* the content of the HTML they're manipulating.) _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
