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An implementation of the TAL template language.

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Overview

The z3c.pt package provides an alternative implementation of the TAL template language including i18n.

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

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.

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 0.5 - 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]

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