Generating static WEB sites

Peter Jessop wrote:
> I am looking at generating static web pages.
> What I wish to do is periodically regenerate a WEB site
form HTML, text 
> and MySQL data.
> 
> I have been experimenting with HTMLgen and this seems
to be adequate for 
> what I need.
> 
> However HTMLgen does not seem to have been updated for
a while and I was 
> wondering if I should be looking at any other packages.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Many. See this page, the sections Templating Engines, HTML
Shorthand 
Processors and HTML Generation class libraries:
http://wik
i.python.org/moin/WebProgramming

Kent

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On 04/25/2006 Kent Johnson wrote:
> Many. See this page, the sections Templating Engines,
HTML Shorthand 
> Processors and HTML Generation class libraries:
> http://wik
i.python.org/moin/WebProgramming

Hmmm,lets toss in my own problem:
I know the list mentioned above, and it is too long for me
to test each
of the templating systems and evalute if they are right for
me. So does
anybody have any suggestions for my situation, so I can make
a shortlist?

I maintain a web-application that has its templates partly
in a language
designed by a previous programmer (basicly a way to mix
python code into
HTML) and has an other part of the templates programmed in
python. I
would like to standarize these to a system that has the
following
charactistics:

- First of all: easy to learn for web-desingers and
translators. My
ideal would be something that feels like "As little
programming als
possible", so the templates should be very close to
the
HTML/Javascript/CSS and have some extentions to it. It
should be well
documented (I don't mind to do some documantation on my
own) and, if
possible, use existing standards.
- can (of course) include a supplied variable
- can make conditional statements
- can loop over a supplied list of lists or dictionaries
- possible to include templates
- can run under mod_python
- possible to generate snippets of html, without generating
/ sending of
a complete website
- possible to store the templates on disk or in a database
- open-source and actively maintained

I don't mind to write my own code for things like escaping,
character
conversion, retrieving the template, sending of the
resulting HTML,
error handling etc. The main goal is to make it as easy as
possible for
webdesingers and / or translators to change the templates
without having
any Python knowledge.

Any suggstion or discussion is welcome!

thanks
&
best wishes,

Winfried
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Winfried Tilanus wrote:
> On 04/25/2006 Kent Johnson wrote:
>> Many. See this page, the sections Templating
Engines, HTML Shorthand 
>> Processors and HTML Generation class libraries:
>> http://wik
i.python.org/moin/WebProgramming
> 
> Hmmm,lets toss in my own problem:
> I know the list mentioned above, and it is too long for
me to test each
> of the templating systems and evalute if they are right
for me. So does
> anybody have any suggestions for my situation, so I can
make a shortlist?

I think Kid meets your requirements:
http://kid.lesscode.org/

Other template systems that seem to be popular these days:
Cheetah
HTMLTemplate
Myghty

Kent

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On 04/26/2006 Kent Johnson wrote:
> I think Kid meets your requirements:
> http://kid.lesscode.org/
> 
> Other template systems that seem to be popular these
days:
> Cheetah
> HTMLTemplate
> Myghty

Thanks for the suggestions (also for those off-line). Kid
and cheetah
look the most promising. I will do some testing with those.

thanks,

Winfried
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