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Template engine with simple data structure

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`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>

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