Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: z3c.pt
Version: 0.7
Summary: An implementation of the TAL template language.
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: Malthe Borch
Author-email: mborch@gmail.com
License: ZPL
Description: Overview
        --------
        
        The z3c.pt package provides an alternative implementation of the TAL
        template language including i18n. It also provides a simple text
        template class that allows expression interpolation.
        
        Casual benchmarks pegs it 12x more performant than ``zope.pagetemplate``.
        
        In a nutshell:
        
        * Templates are bytecode-compiled
        * Only Python-expressions are supported
        * Depends only on lxml
        * Adds support for expression interpolation
        * Limited support for CSS, Javascript and other non-XML documents
        
        See the README.txt inside the package for instructions on usage.
        
        Note: The METAL macro language is not supported.
        
        Template and expression language
        --------------------------------
        
        The template and expression language is based loosely on the TAL 1.4
        specification*. Some notable changes:
        
        1. Only Python-expressions are allowed. Expressions can have
        try-except fallbacks using the vertical bar syntax:
        
        tal:content="<expression> | <first fallback> | <second fallback> | ..."
        
        2. Tuples are allowed in the tal:define statement:
        
        tal:define="(a, b, c) [1, 2, 3]"
        
        3. Generators are allowed in tal:repeat statements. Note that the
        repeat variable is not available in this case.
        
        tal:repeat="i <some generator>"
        
        4. Attribute-access to dictionary entries is allowed, e.g.
        
        dictionary.key
        
        can be used instead of ``dictionary['key']``.
        
        5. Expressions that return a callable are called.
        
        6. Expression interpolation is allowed:
        
        <a href="mailto:${context.email}">${context.email}</a>
        
        7. Attribute-values are always escaped; document expressions are
        never.
        
        .. _TAL: http://wiki.zope.org/ZPT/TALSpecification14
        
        Development
        -----------
        
        If you want to use the code directly from trunk, provide
        ``z3c.pt==dev`` as your dependency.
        
        http://svn.zope.org/z3c.pt/trunk#egg=z3c.pt-dev
        
        Changelog
        ---------
        
        Version 0.7 - March 10, 2008
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        - Added support for comments; expressions are allowed
        inside comments, i.e.
        
        <!-- ${'Hello World!'} -->
        
        Comments are always included.
        
        Version 0.6 - February 24, 2008
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        - Added support for text templates; these allow expression
        interpolation in non-XML documents like CSS stylesheets and
        javascript files.
        
        Version 0.5 - February 23, 2008
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        - Expression interpolation implemented.
        
        Version 0.4 - February 22, 2008
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        - Engine now uses cStringIO yielding a 2.5x performance
        improvement. Unicode is now handled correctly.
        
        Version 0.3 - December 23, 2007
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        - Code optimization; bug fixing spree
        [malthe]
        
        - Added ``ViewPageTemplateFile`` class
        [malthe]
        
        - Added support for i18n
        [malthe]
        
        - Engine rewrite; improved code generation abstractions
        [malthe]
        
        
        Version 0.2 - December 5, 2007
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        - Major optimizations to the generated code
        [malthe]
        
        
        Version 0.1 - December 3, 2007
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        - First public release
        [malthe]
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
