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flexable 0.3dev

Template engine with simple data structure

`flexable` is template engine with simple data structure.
That is made up of str, unicode, dict, tuple, list and Element.

usage
merge structured values to xhtml template.

>>> t = Template()
>>> t.fromstring("
")
>>> str(t)
'
'

>>> t.merge('hello')
>>> str(t)
'
hello
'

>>> t = Template()
>>> t.fromstring("
")
>>> t.merge({'y':['1', '2']})
>>> str(t)
'
12
'

>>> t = Template()
>>> t.fromstring("
")
>>> t.merge({'y':[({'@id':'m1'}, '1'),
...               ({'@id':'m2'}, '2')]})
>>> str(t)
'
12
'

>>> t.fromstring("
")
>>> t.merge({'box':[{'x':'1', 'y':'2'},
...                 {'x':'3', 'y':'4'}]})
>>> str(t)
'
12
34
'

>>> t.fromstring("
")
>>> t.merge(ET.Element('span'))
>>> str(t)
'
'

To use flexable as template engine for wsgi application, you can use
flexable.plugin:FlexablePlugin.
And that is python.template_engine entry point.

Example on TurboGears

controllers.py::

     @expose(template="flexable:flexable_example.templates.example")
    def example(self):
        return dict(message="This is flexable message.",
                    contents=""" This is main contents from controller.
flexable is merge values to given html template with class attribute.
""")

flexable_example/templates/example.html::

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <body>
    <h1>Flexable Template</h1>
    <span class="message"></span>
    <p class="contents"></p>
    <span class="widget"/>
  </body>
 </html>

you get:

 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <body>
    <h1>Flexable Template</h1>
    <span class="message">This is flexable message.</span>
    <p class="contents"> This is main contents from controller.
 flexable is merge values to given html template with class attribute.
 </p>
  </body>
 </html>
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