flexable 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("<div/>") >>> str(t) '<div/>' >>> t.merge('hello') >>> str(t) '<div>hello</div>' >>> t = Template() >>> t.fromstring("<div><span class='y'/></div>") >>> t.merge({'y':['1', '2']}) >>> str(t) '<div><span class="y">1</span><span class="y">2</span></div>' >>> t = Template() >>> t.fromstring("<div><span class='y'/></div>") >>> t.merge({'y':[({'@id':'m1'}, '1'), ... ({'@id':'m2'}, '2')]}) >>> str(t) '<div><span class="y" id="m1">1</span><span class="y" id="m2">2</span></div>' >>> t.fromstring("<div><div class='box'><span class='x'/><span class='y'/></div></div>") >>> t.merge({'box':[{'x':'1', 'y':'2'}, ... {'x':'3', 'y':'4'}]}) >>> str(t) '<div><div class="box"><span class="x">1</span><span class="y">2</span></div><div class="box"><span class="x">3</span><span class="y">4</span></div></div>' >>> t.fromstring("<div/>") >>> t.merge(ET.Element('span')) >>> str(t) '<div><span/></div>' 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:: &lt;?xml version="1.0"?> &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> &lt;body> &lt;h1>Flexable Template&lt;/h1> &lt;span class="message">&lt;/span> &lt;p class="contents">&lt;/p> &lt;span class="widget"/> &lt;/body> &lt;/html> you get: &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> &lt;body> &lt;h1>Flexable Template&lt;/h1> &lt;span class="message">This is flexable message.&lt;/span> &lt;p class="contents"> This is main contents from controller. flexable is merge values to given html template with class attribute. &lt;/p> &lt;/body> &lt;/html> Atsushi Odagiri 672f68b789a8a7409503061a516d16fb67b22656 0.3dev