ANN: Templayer 1.3 - HTML templating library

[Ian Ward]

Announcing Templayer 1.3
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Templayer home page:
   http://excess.org/templayer/

Tarball:
   http://excess.org/templayer/templayer-1.3.tar.gz


About this release:
===================

This release includes new documentation and a new auto-reload feature 
useful for mod_python and web frameworks. Also, the internal template 
representation was changed to improve performance and consistency, and 
the HTML generated with HTML Markup is now more standards-compliant.


New in this release:
====================

   - Added reference documentation and a new tutorial.

   - Added an auto_reload parameter to Template.__init__ to make the
     Template.start_file function check and reload a template if it has
     been modified.  This is useful for mod_python and web frameworks
     with long-lived processes.

   - Changed the internal representation of the templates to improve
     performance for large templates and to solve an issue with
     slots being filled with text that appears to contain another
     slot that is being filled at the same time.

     The new implementation no longer allows "%" and "{" characers in
     slot and layer names.

   - The Template.missing_slot function is now passed a list of
     missing slots for a layer.  This should improve performance when
     ignoring a large number of missing slots.

   - The HTML markup has been adjusted to make its use of <br> and <p>
     tags more standards-compliant.

   - HtmlTemplate has been renamed to HTMLTemplate and MarkupException
     has been renamed to MarkupError.  The old names are still
     provided for backwards compatibility.


About Templayer
===============

Templayer was created to offer an alternative to the more common ways of 
generating dynamic HTML: embedding code within the HTML or embedding 
HTML within code. Instead of mixing HTML and Python, two rich and 
extremely expressive languages, Templayer adds a small amount of syntax 
to each and keeps the two separate and coherent.

Templayer is released under the GNU LGPL.