Yeah, this is more along the idea that Paul Abrams had, as I mentioned in my blog, leading me to bring up this subject. In his idea, he had a piece of Python splicing together pieces of XML, and treating the DOM somewhat like a dictionary where the ids where the keys.
Best Regards, -jj On 6/3/05, Timothy Soehnlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if instead of intersplicing node commands, such as iterating through > lists, into > the actual document, you were to operate on a different idea. > > What if you were to parse an xml file, and then manipulate the entire > page as through a system of blocks. i.e. > > ---------------------- > <page> > <data id='eItem'> > <div class='blogEntry'> > <div class='heading'>%(heading)s</div> > <div class='day'>%(day)s</div> > </div> > </data> > > <data id='updated'> > <h2>Updated, click <a href='/admin/'>here</a> to return</h2> > </data> > </page> > ------------------------ > via the id tags, you could modify the output without ever knowing what it is. > > Assuming there is a wrapper around the xml file, to be indexed as a > dictionary given 'id' tags, > if you successfully deleted something, you would return as output, > xmlObject['deleted'], and > with string splicing, you could merge data, as with xmlObject['blogEntry'] % > blogData, where > blogData is a dictionary of data that could be generated by another xml file, > or a database query. > This would then would return a fully constructed html block, without the > script ever knowing or > touching any html. > > This orientation has some drawbacks, but allows for complete separation of > code from > content. > > This may happen to be too verbose for certain things, as it seems to add a > lot of extra code > for doing simple things, but with some simple coding, you could easily build > a module that works > around that. > > I do know that this works quite well for a system I have built, and keeps > people who are editing > the xml files from seeing any control structure, or any indication of python. > Which means you > could have people who know only html build the xml files, and then coders > manipulate it, neither > of the two would need to interact minus the definition of the variables for > interpolation. Also, to > hide python even more, the %( )s is normally replaced with [[ ]], as to make > it seem more > variable like, but that is superficial. > -- > I would rather be known as a Christian > and despised, than to be overlooked, > and thought of as one of the world. > _______________________________________________ > Web-SIG mailing list > [email protected] > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/jjinux%40gmail.com > -- I have decided to switch to Gmail, but messages to my Yahoo account will still get through. _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list [email protected] Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
