markup.py - HTML/XML generator

[Daniel Nogradi]

> > Just in case the thought of not having a millionth implementation of a
> > HTML/XML generator for Python makes the world as we know it a
> > miserable place, well then your suffering might be over soon since
> > exactly the one millionth implementation is out. You can download
> > markup.py from
> >
> > http://markup.sourceforge.net/
> >
>
> (Corrected the link).
>
> You opened a door I was pushing!
>
> I wrote a HTML generator a few weeks ago to generate a static site, but
> it was only a little less tortuous to use than writing out the HTML by
> hand.  I wanted to do things the way  'markup.py' does but couldn't
> manage it. Then I read your code, added straightforward '__getattr__'
> and '__call__' methods to my own code, and now I need only half the
> 'LOC' that I did before.
>
> Before I did this:
>
>     page = HtmlPage('Test Page')
>     left_div = page.append( HtmlElement('div', id='left') )
>     main_div = page.append( HtmlElement('div', id='main') )
>     navbar = HtmlElement('ul', css='navbar')
>     for href,link in {'/home':'Home', '/shop':'Shop',
> '/cart':'Cart'}.iteritems():
>         li = navbar.append( HtmlElement('li') )
>         li.append( HtmlElement('a',link, href=href) )
>     left_div.append(navbar)
>     main_div.append( HtmlElement('h1','Header') )
>     main_div.append( HtmlElement('p','<Text Goes Here>') )
>
> Now I can do this:
>
>     page = HtmlPage('Test Page')
>     navbar = page.div(id='left').ul(css='navbar')
>     for href,link in {'/home':'Home', '/shop':'Shop',
> '/cart':'Cart'}.iteritems():
>         navbar.li.a(link,href=href)
>     page.div(id='main').h1('Header').p('<Text Goes Here>')
>
>
> So *that's* what '__call__' does - I am enlightened!
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Here's mine:
>
> http://www.gflanagan.net/site/python/htmlbuilder/htmlbuilder.py
>
> (So, 'More than one million ways to do it' then...)
>
> Gerard


Well, I'm glad you like it! And thanks for correcting the link, I
didn't even notice, so the correct link is

http://markup.sourceforge.net/

But I guess that was pretty obvious :) Your implementation also looks
all right, the only thing is that it has dependencies outside the
stdlib which some people might find not so nice.