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Monday, 16 June 2014

templatifier

The idea of this project is to use standard HTML as templates to generate static sites dynamically. This is useful for distributing sites on a CD or to be able to use a cheaper hosting package and still have some of the functionality of a content managed system.

Introduction

The templater.py script replaces blocks of text in a standard html file. The blocks to be replaced inside the template are marked simply by the id of the tag. Take for example the following html (we'll call it template.html): 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>This title should get replaced</title>
  <head>
  <body>
    <h1 id="title">Title</h1>
    <div id="content">
      Filler filler blah blah
      Filler filler bla
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
To use this html as a template, execute the following command: 
  python templater.py -t "New Title" -v title="Header Title" -v content="Now this is content" template.html outfile.html
This will create an output file with the specified blocks replaced.
For more details, see UsingTemplater

from https://code.google.com/p/templatifier/
https://templatifier.googlecode.com/files/templater-0.01.py 

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