[Mailman-Users] Template Token Hell

[Lindsay Haisley]

I'm trying to do a bit of work with Mailman templates.  I've hacked the Mailman 
archiving facility to handle PHP, and have done a bit of work to integrate 
namazu more seamlessly with Mailman (see http://www.fmp.com/namazu) but I'm up 
against a veritable jungle of different substitution tokens in different 
templates.  %(listname)s is the equivalent of the Python Mailman var real_name 
(the "pretty" name) in some places, while in others %(list_name)s is the 
lower-case name used for directories.  Yet other templates use replacement 
sequences that are more like HTML tags, e.g. "<MM-List-Name>".

A.  Is there any reference (other than reading code) where all these are
    defined for the different contexts in which they occur?

B.  Is there any plan to organize this mess into something more logical?

In particular, I'm trying to find out if there's a lower case version of the 
list name available in archtocnombox.html and archtoc.html (where %(listname)s 
is the "pretty" name selected by the list administrator), and what other 
substitution tokens are available in the context of these two templates.  
Because I've hacked these two templates to use PHP in both public and private 
archives, I can do a PHP strtolower() call on the string when the index.html 
file derived from the template is served, but without this hack we have a
problem with namazu.

Using the system described at 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037580.html, the 
namazu CGI and its config program are localized in ~mailman/cgi-bin/listname/ 
but listname is the "pretty" name, so if I set up namazu for one of my lists 
and the list administrator changes the capitalization in the real_name, the 
archive search breaks.

Maybe I oughta post this on the dev list.  Can anyone here answer it?  Brad, 
maybe I'll see you Thursday and you can answer this personally.

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