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authorKarl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com>2013-10-02 11:31:47 -0500
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Docs: project.rst: Eliminate reduncency and better explain renderer.
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@@ -871,18 +871,17 @@ specification` that specifies the ``mytemplate.pt`` file within the
``templates`` directory of the ``myproject`` package. The asset
specification could have also been specified as
``myproject:templates/mytemplate.pt``; the leading package name and colon is
-optional. The template file it actually points to is a :term:`Chameleon` ZPT
-template file.
+optional. The template file pointed to is a :term:`Chameleon` ZPT
+template file (``templates/my_template.pt``).
This view callable function is handed a single piece of information: the
:term:`request`. The *request* is an instance of the :term:`WebOb`
``Request`` class representing the browser's request to our server.
-This view returns a dictionary. When this view is invoked, a
-:term:`renderer` converts the dictionary returned by the view into HTML, and
-returns the result as the :term:`response`. This view is configured to
-invoke a renderer which uses a :term:`Chameleon` ZPT template
-(``templates/my_template.pt``).
+This view is configured to invoke a :term;`renderer` on a template. The
+dictionary the view returns (on line 6) provides the value the renderer
+substitutes into the template when generating HTML. The renderer then
+returns the HTML in a :term:`response`.
See :ref:`views_which_use_a_renderer` for more information about how views,
renderers, and templates relate and cooperate.