HTML parser example, anybody?

Thu May 4 11:39:47 EDT 2000

In reply to the message of Bjorn Pettersen sent on Apr 27 (see below) :

The following issue is very interesting because you can generate dynamic
contents only by using 

>    htmlfile = open('foo.html', 'w')
>    replacements = {
>      'title':   'my title',
>      'heading': 'A Heading',
>    }
>    htmlfile.write( open(foo.templ).read() % replacements )
>    htmlfile.close()

I got one problem left. 

>    <html><head><title>%(title)s</title></head>
>    <body><h1>%(heading)s</h1></body></html>

What I think would be very intersting is to have the variable's name
enclosed in an HTML commentary like in the following:

     <html><head><title><!--cgi: %(title)s --></title></head>
     <body><h1><!--cgi: %(heading)s --></h1></body></html>

Like this, A Web designer could work on any template within an application
without any intervention of the programmer. The opposite is right too.

Any clue ? ;)

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Bjorn Pettersen wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:10:21 -0600
> From: Bjorn Pettersen <bjorn at roguewave.com>
> To: Gerhard Haering <haering at sunhalle8.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
> Cc: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: HTML parser example, anybody?
> 
> Gerhard Haering wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I want to transform my own HTML templates (with a few template tags,
> > special comments, and so on) into final HTML for the browser. I would like
> > to use Pyhton's htmllib, but from the docs I can get no clue on how to get
> > it done. I seem to have to use a writer and a formatter class ...
> > 
> > I would greatly appreciate an example of HTML -> HTML using
> > htmllib/sgmllib. Can anybody provide pointers/code snippets?
> 
> Why don't you just use Python's string syntax, e.g. if you have the
> following in a template file called foo.templ:
> 
>    <html><head><title>%(title)s</title></head>
>    <body><h1>%(heading)s</h1></body></html>
> 
> you can do something like:
> 
>    htmlfile = open('foo.html', 'w')
>    replacements = {
>      'title':   'my title',
>      'heading': 'A Heading',
>    }
>    htmlfile.write( open(foo.templ).read() % replacements )
>    htmlfile.close()
> 
> -- bjorn
> 
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