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authorChris McDonough <chrism@agendaless.com>2008-09-26 06:42:53 +0000
committerChris McDonough <chrism@agendaless.com>2008-09-26 06:42:53 +0000
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Move to Chameleon.
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@@ -5,25 +5,35 @@ A :term:`template` is a usually file on disk which can be used to
render data provided by a :term:`view`, surrounded by more static
information.
-Templating With :term:`z3c.pt` (ZPT) Page Templates
----------------------------------------------------
+Templating With :term:`Chameleon` (:term:`chameleon.zpt`) Page Templates
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
Like Zope, :mod:`repoze.bfg` uses Zope Page Templates (:term:`ZPT`) as
-its default templating language. However, :mod:`repoze.bfg` uses a
-different implementation of the :term:`ZPT` specification than Zope
-does: the :term:`z3c.pt` templating engine. This templating engine
+its default and best-supported templating language. However,
+:mod:`repoze.bfg` uses a different implementation of the :term:`ZPT`
+specification than Zope does: the :term:`Chameleon`
+:term:`chameleon.zpt` templating engine. This templating engine
complies with the `Zope Page Template
<http://wiki.zope.org/ZPT/FrontPage>`_ template specification and is
significantly faster.
-Given that there is a :term:`z3c.pt` template named ``foo.html`` in a
-directory in your application named ``templates``, you can render the
-template from a view like so:
+.. note:: :mod:`repoze.bfg` can also allow for the use of Genshi-style
+ templates via the ``chameleon.genshi`` package, support for which
+ is built-in to :mod:`repoze.bfg`. The :mod:`repoze.bfg` API
+ functions for getting and rendering Chameleon Genshi-style
+ templates mirrors the Chameleon ZPT-style API completely; only the
+ template files themselves must differ. See :ref:`template_module`
+ for more information about using Genshi-style templates within
+ :mod:`repoze.bfg`.
+
+Given that there is a :term:`chameleon.zpt` template named
+``foo.html`` in a directory in your application named ``templates``,
+you can render the template from a view like so:
.. code-block:: python
:linenos:
- from repoze.bfg.template import render_template_to_response
+ from repoze.bfg.chameleon_zpt import render_template_to_response
def sample_view(context, request):
return render_template_to_response('templates/foo.html', foo=1, bar=2)
@@ -35,18 +45,18 @@ Relative to the directory in which the ``views.py`` file which names
it lives, which is usually the :mod:`repoze.bfg` application's
:term:`package` directory.
-``render_template_to_response`` always renders a :term:`z3c.pt`
+``render_template_to_response`` always renders a :term:`chameleon.zpt`
template, and always returns a Response object which has a *status
code* of ``200 OK`` and a *content-type* of ``text-html``. If you
need more control over the status code and content-type, use the
-``render_template`` function instead, which also renders a z3c.pt
-template but returns a string instead of a Response. You can use
-the string manually as a response body:
+``render_template`` function instead, which also renders a ZPT
+template but returns a string instead of a Response. You can use the
+string manually as a response body:
.. code-block:: python
:linenos:
- from repoze.bfg.template import render_template
+ from repoze.bfg.chameleon_zpt import render_template
from webob import Response
def sample_view(context, request):
result = render_template('templates/foo.html', foo=1, bar=2)
@@ -71,7 +81,7 @@ an XSLT as follows:
.. code-block:: python
:linenos:
- from repoze.bfg.template import render_transform_to_response
+ from repoze.bfg.xslt import render_transform_to_response
from lxml import etree
node = etree.Element("root")
return render_transform_to_response('templates/foo.xsl', node)
@@ -85,7 +95,7 @@ You can also pass XSLT parameters in as keyword arguments:
.. code-block:: python
:linenos:
- from repoze.bfg.template import render_transform_to_response
+ from repoze.bfg.xslt import render_transform_to_response
from lxml import etree
node = etree.Element("root")
value1 = "'app1'"