############################################################################## # # Copyright (c) 2002 Zope Corporation and Contributors. All Rights Reserved. # # This software is subject to the provisions of the Zope Public License, # Version 2.1 (ZPL). A copy of the ZPL should accompany this distribution. # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED # WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED # WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, AGAINST INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS # FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE # ############################################################################## '''Document templates with fill-in fields Document templates provide for creation of textual documents, such as HTML pages, from template source by inserting data from python objects and name-spaces. When a document template is created, a collection of default values to be inserted may be specified with a mapping object and with keyword arguments. A document templated may be called to create a document with values inserted. When called, an instance, a mapping object, and keyword arguments may be specified to provide values to be inserted. If an instance is provided, the document template will try to look up values in the instance using getattr, so inheritence of values is supported. If an inserted value is a function, method, or class, then an attempt will be made to call the object to obtain values. This allows instance methods to be included in documents. Document templates masquerade as functions, so the python object publisher (Bobo) will call templates that are stored as instances of published objects. Bobo will pass the object the template was found in and the HTTP request object. Two source formats are supported: Extended Python format strings (EPFS) -- This format is based on the insertion by name format strings of python with additional format characters, '[' and ']' to indicate block boundaries. In addition, parameters may be used within formats to control how insertion is done. For example: %%(date fmt=DayOfWeek upper)s causes the contents of variable 'date' to be inserted using custom format 'DayOfWeek' and with all lower case letters converted to upper case. HTML -- This format uses HTML server-side-include syntax with commands for inserting text. Parameters may be included to customize the operation of a command. For example: is used to insert the variable 'total' with the C format '12.2f'. Document templates support conditional and sequence insertion Document templates extend python string substitition rules with a mechanism that allows conditional insertion of template text and that allows sequences to be inserted with element-wise insertion of template text. Access Control Document templates provide a basic level of access control by preventing access to names beginning with an underscore. Additional control may be provided by providing document templates with a 'guarded_getattr' and 'guarded_getitem' method. This would typically be done by subclassing one or more of the DocumentTemplate classes. If provided, the the 'guarded_getattr' method will be called when objects are accessed as instance attributes or when they are accessed through keyed access in an expression. Document Templates may be created 4 ways: DocumentTemplate.String -- Creates a document templated from a string using an extended form of python string formatting. DocumentTemplate.File -- Creates a document templated bound to a named file using an extended form of python string formatting. If the object is pickled, the file name, rather than the file contents is pickled. When the object is unpickled, then the file will be re-read to obtain the string. Note that the file will not be read until the document template is used the first time. DocumentTemplate.HTML -- Creates a document templated from a string using HTML server-side-include rather than python-format-string syntax. DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile -- Creates an HTML document template from a named file. ''' __version__='$Revision: 1.14 $'[11:-2] ParseError='Document Template Parse Error' from DT_String import String, File from DT_HTML import HTML, HTMLFile, HTMLDefault # import DT_UI # Install HTML editing