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Properly wrap exceptions we want to catch. Submitted by: Armin Ronacher
author jruigrok
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1 .. -*- mode: rst; encoding: utf-8 -*-
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3 ============================
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4 Genshi XML Template Language
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5 ============================
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7 Genshi provides a XML-based template language that is heavily inspired by Kid_,
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8 which in turn was inspired by a number of existing template languages, namely
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9 XSLT_, TAL_, and PHP_.
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11 .. _kid: http://kid-templating.org/
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12 .. _python: http://www.python.org/
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13 .. _xslt: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
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14 .. _tal: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/TAL
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15 .. _php: http://www.php.net/
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17 This document describes the template language and will be most useful as
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18 reference to those developing Genshi XML templates. Templates are XML files of
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19 some kind (such as XHTML) that include processing directives_ (elements or
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20 attributes identified by a separate namespace) that affect how the template is
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21 rendered, and template expressions that are dynamically substituted by
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22 variable data.
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24 See `Genshi Templating Basics <templates.html>`_ for general information on
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25 embedding Python code in templates.
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28 .. contents:: Contents
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29 :depth: 3
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30 .. sectnum::
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33 .. _`directives`:
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35 -------------------
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36 Template Directives
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37 -------------------
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39 Directives are elements and/or attributes in the template that are identified
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40 by the namespace ``http://genshi.edgewall.org/``. They can affect how the
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41 template is rendered in a number of ways: Genshi provides directives for
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42 conditionals and looping, among others.
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44 To use directives in a template, the namespace must be declared, which is
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45 usually done on the root element:
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47 .. code-block:: genshi
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48
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49 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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50 xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"
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51 lang="en">
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52 ...
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53 </html>
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55 In this example, the default namespace is set to the XHTML namespace, and the
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56 namespace for Genshi directives is bound to the prefix “py”.
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58 All directives can be applied as attributes, and some can also be used as
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59 elements. The ``if`` directives for conditionals, for example, can be used in
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60 both ways:
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62 .. code-block:: genshi
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64 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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65 xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"
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66 lang="en">
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67 ...
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68 <div py:if="foo">
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69 <p>Bar</p>
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70 </div>
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71 ...
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72 </html>
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74 This is basically equivalent to the following:
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75
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76 .. code-block:: genshi
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78 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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79 xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"
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80 lang="en">
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81 ...
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82 <py:if test="foo">
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83 <div>
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84 <p>Bar</p>
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85 </div>
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86 </py:if>
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87 ...
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88 </html>
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90 The rationale behind the second form is that directives do not always map
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91 naturally to elements in the template. In such cases, the ``py:strip``
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92 directive can be used to strip off the unwanted element, or the directive can
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93 simply be used as an element.
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96 Conditional Sections
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101 ``py:if``
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102 ---------
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104 The element is only rendered if the expression evaluates to a truth value:
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108 <div>
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109 <b py:if="foo">${bar}</b>
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110 </div>
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112 Given the data ``foo=True`` and ``bar='Hello'`` in the template context, this
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113 would produce:
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117 <div>
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118 <b>Hello</b>
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119 </div>
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121 This directive can also be used as an element:
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125 <div>
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126 <py:if test="foo">
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127 <b>${bar}</b>
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128 </py:if>
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129 </div>
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131 .. _`py:choose`:
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132 .. _`py:when`:
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135 ``py:choose``
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136 -------------
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138 The ``py:choose`` directive, in combination with the directives ``py:when``
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139 and ``py:otherwise`` provides advanced conditional processing for rendering one
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140 of several alternatives. The first matching ``py:when`` branch is rendered, or,
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141 if no ``py:when`` branch matches, the ``py:otherwise`` branch is rendered.
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143 If the ``py:choose`` directive is empty the nested ``py:when`` directives will
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144 be tested for truth:
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148 <div py:choose="">
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149 <span py:when="0 == 1">0</span>
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150 <span py:when="1 == 1">1</span>
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151 <span py:otherwise="">2</span>
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152 </div>
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154 This would produce the following output:
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158 <div>
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159 <span>1</span>
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162 If the ``py:choose`` directive contains an expression the nested ``py:when``
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163 directives will be tested for equality to the parent ``py:choose`` value:
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167 <div py:choose="1">
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168 <span py:when="0">0</span>
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169 <span py:when="1">1</span>
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170 <span py:otherwise="">2</span>
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171 </div>
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173 This would produce the following output:
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177 <div>
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178 <span>1</span>
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179 </div>
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182 Looping
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198 Given ``items=[1, 2, 3]`` in the context data, this would produce:
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202 <ul>
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203 <li>1</li><li>2</li><li>3</li>
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206 This directive can also be used as an element:
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212 <li>${item}</li>
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226 The ``py:def`` directive can be used to create macros, i.e. snippets of
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228 inserted in other places:
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233 <p py:def="greeting(name)" class="greeting">
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234 Hello, ${name}!
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236 ${greeting('world')}
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237 ${greeting('everyone else')}
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244 <div>
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245 <p class="greeting">
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246 Hello, world!
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259 <p py:def="greeting" class="greeting">
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260 Hello, world!
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262 ${greeting()}
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269 <div>
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270 <p class="greeting">
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271 Hello, world!
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272 </p>
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275 This directive can also be used as an element:
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277 .. code-block:: genshi
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280 <py:def function="greeting(name)">
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281 <p class="greeting">Hello, ${name}!</p>
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292 This directive defines a *match template*: given an XPath expression, it
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293 replaces any element in the template that matches the expression with its own
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297 element with the tag name “greeting”:
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302 <span py:match="greeting">
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303 Hello ${select('@name')}
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304 </span>
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305 <greeting name="Dude" />
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306 </div>
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308 This would result in the following output:
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312 <div>
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313 <span>
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314 Hello Dude
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318 Inside the body of a ``py:match`` directive, the ``select(path)`` function is
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329 template. The match templates basically form a pipeline.
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331 This directive can also be used as an element:
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337 <span>Hello ${select('@name')}</span>
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338 </py:match>
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339 <greeting name="Dude" />
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346 .. code-block:: genshi
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350 <div id="header">...</div>
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351 ${select("*|text()")}
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353 </body>
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360 +===============+===========+===============================================+
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363 | | | performance a bit at the cost of needing more |
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375 | | | elements that can only occur once in the |
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376 | | | stream, such as the ``<head>`` or ``<body>`` |
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380 | ``recursive`` | ``true`` | Whether the match template should be applied |
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382 | | | non-recursive behavior, so this attribute |
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383 | | | only needs to be set for match templates that |
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418 <span>42 7 52</span>
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419 </div>
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425 <div>
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443 This directive adds, modifies or removes attributes from the element:
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447 <ul>
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452 produce:
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456 <ul>
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458 </ul>
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460 Attributes with the value ``None`` are omitted, so given ``foo={'class': None}``
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461 in the context for the same template this would produce:
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465 <ul>
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466 <li>Bar</li>
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467 </ul>
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469 This directive can only be used as an attribute.
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477 This directive replaces any nested content with the result of evaluating the
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478 expression:
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482 <ul>
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483 <li py:content="bar">Hello</li>
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484 </ul>
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486 Given ``bar='Bye'`` in the context data, this would produce:
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490 <ul>
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491 <li>Bye</li>
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492 </ul>
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502 This directive replaces the element itself with the result of evaluating the
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508 <span py:replace="bar">Hello</span>
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511 Given ``bar='Bye'`` in the context data, this would produce:
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515 <div>
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516 Bye
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519 This directive can also be used as an element (since version 0.5):
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521 .. code-block:: genshi
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523 <div>
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524 <py:replace value="title">Placeholder</py:replace>
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534 This directive conditionally strips the top-level element from the output. When
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535 the value of the ``py:strip`` attribute evaluates to ``True``, the element is
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536 stripped from the output:
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544 This would be rendered as:
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552 As a shorthand, if the value of the ``py:strip`` attribute is empty, that has
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553 the same effect as using a truth value (i.e. the element is stripped).
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558 Processing Order
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561 It is possible to attach multiple directives to a single element, although not
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562 all combinations make sense. When multiple directives are encountered, they are
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563 processed in the following order:
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567 #. `py:when`_
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568 #. `py:otherwise`_
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573 #. `py:replace`_
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574 #. `py:content`_
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575 #. `py:attrs`_
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576 #. `py:strip`_
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579 .. _includes:
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580
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581 --------
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582 Includes
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585 To reuse common snippets of template code, you can include other files using
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586 XInclude_.
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587
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588 .. _xinclude: http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/
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590 For this, you need to declare the XInclude namespace (commonly bound to the
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591 prefix “xi”) and use the ``<xi:include>`` element where you want the external
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592 file to be pulled in:
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593
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594 .. code-block:: genshi
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596 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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597 xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"
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598 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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599 <xi:include href="base.html" />
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600 ...
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601 </html>
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603 Include paths are relative to the filename of the template currently being
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604 processed. So if the example above was in the file "``myapp/index.html``"
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605 (relative to the template search path), the XInclude processor would look for
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606 the included file at "``myapp/base.html``". You can also use Unix-style
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607 relative paths, for example "``../base.html``" to look in the parent directory.
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609 Any content included this way is inserted into the generated output instead of
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610 the ``<xi:include>`` element. The included template sees the same context data.
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611 `Match templates`_ and `macros`_ in the included template are also available to
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612 the including template after the point it was included.
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613
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614 By default, an error will be raised if an included file is not found. If that's
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615 not what you want, you can specify fallback content that should be used if the
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616 include fails. For example, to to make the include above fail silently, you'd
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617 write:
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618
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619 .. code-block:: genshi
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621 <xi:include href="base.html"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
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623 See the `XInclude specification`_ for more about fallback content. Note though
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624 that Genshi currently only supports a small subset of XInclude.
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625
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626 .. _`xinclude specification`: http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/
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629 Dynamic Includes
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630 ================
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631
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632 Incudes in Genshi are fully dynamic: Just like normal attributes, the `href`
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633 attribute accepts expressions, and directives_ can be used on the
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634 ``<xi:include />`` element just as on any other element, meaning you can do
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635 things like conditional includes:
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636
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638
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639 <xi:include href="${name}.html" py:if="not in_popup"
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640 py:for="name in ('foo', 'bar', 'baz')" />
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643 Including Text Templates
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645
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646 The ``parse`` attribute of the ``<xi:include>`` element can be used to specify
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647 whether the included template is an XML template or a text template (using the
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648 new syntax added in Genshi 0.5):
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649
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650 .. code-block:: genshi
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652 <xi:include href="myscript.js" parse="text" />
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654 This example would load the ``myscript.js`` file as a ``NewTextTemplate``. See
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655 `text templates`_ for details on the syntax of text templates.
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657 .. _`text templates`: text-templates.html
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658
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660 .. _comments:
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662 --------
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663 Comments
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666 Normal XML/HTML comment syntax can be used in templates:
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670 <!-- this is a comment -->
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671
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672 However, such comments get passed through the processing pipeline and are by
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673 default included in the final output. If that's not desired, prefix the comment
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674 text with an exclamation mark:
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675
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680 Note that it does not matter whether there's whitespace before or after the
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681 exclamation mark, so the above could also be written as follows:
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