[Web-SIG] html-gen-ish libraries; what's best?

[Luke Arno]

I wrote a little utility called 'pyfo' for just this purpose.

It works for generating any XML you like.

http://foss.cpcc.edu/pyfo/

this:
-------------------------------
markup = ('div',
                  [('h1', 'Example', {'class': 'heading'}),
                   ('p', 'No one expects The Spanish Inquisition!')])

print pyfo(markup, pretty=True)
-------------------------------

outputs:
-------------------------------
<div>
    <h1 class="heading">Example</h1>
    <p>No one expects The Spanish Inquisition!</p>
</div>
-------------------------------

This has turned out to be extremely convenient for me.
YMMV.

Cheers,
- Luke

http://lukearno.com/

On 4/4/06, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> Are there any opinions on the best HTML/XML generation libraries out there?
>
> For example, HTMLGen being the original (but too eclectic).  Stan is
> often also sited (http://divmod.org/projects/nevow#stan).  I have an
> extension of ElementTree along these lines in FormEncode
> (http://svn.formencode.org/FormEncode/trunk/formencode/htmlgen.py).  I
> noticed http://markup.sourceforge.net/ today, which allows you to open a
> tag and close it later, which can be nice.
>
> I'd like to put a Best Possible library in WebHelpers
> (http://pylonshq.com/WebHelpers/), that's both simple and easy to work
> with.  I would be nice if the same API could be used to generate both
> ElementTree nodes and strings; ElementTree itself can be a little picky,
> so *only* using ElementTree as the internal/intermediate representation
> (like formencode.htmlgen does) might be going too far.  HTML/XHTML
> validation might be interesting.  Smart indentation would be nice, at
> least optionally (i.e., indentation, but nothing that breaks the layout).
>
> While the library would ideally have some (optional) knowledge of HTML,
> it would be out of scope to have it be a general page-builder (like
> HTMLGen, and a bit like markup.sf.net).  I'm more interested in just
> using it to build fragments.
>
> Opinions?
>
> --
> Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org
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