HTMLgen docs, tutorial

[user]

Checking out HTMLgen, I find the manual
to be quite terse, and difficult to crack.

Are there any examples or tutorials available
for this package?

Thanks,

Tobiah

 

[Mathias Waack]

Checking out HTMLgen, I find the manual
to be quite terse, and difficult to crack.

Are there any examples or tutorials available
for this package?

Its quite easy: if you have a HTML-tag with included text,
just use the approriate class and pass the text as argument:

<p>hallo</p> becomes Para("hallo")

Headers take an additional argument, the level:

<h1>Head</h1> becomes H(1,"Head")

Nested tags are the same es nested function calls. Each tag
is a container and has an append()-method:

p = Para("hallo")
p.append("another hallo")

Each tag-class ctor takes keyword arguments which become
tag arguments:

l = OrderedList(type='i')

creates an <ol type='i'> like list.

For further info look at the sources, esp. at the HTMLtest
module.

Mathias

 

[user]

Its quite easy:

Thanks,

That helps quite a bit.

Then there are the document classes. Does one normally
just append element classes to a document and then ask
the document to print itself?

Thanks,

Tobiah

 

[Gerrit Muller]

Thanks,

That helps quite a bit.

Then there are the document classes. Does one normally
just append element classes to a document and then ask
the document to print itself?

Thanks,

Tobiah

I have stripped one of my scripts to a more or less minimal example below:

doc = SimpleDocument(title"pageTitle")
doc.meta = Meta(name="keywords",content="Keywords")
row = TR()
row.append(TD("text")),valign="TOP",bgcolor="#FFFFFF"),"\n")
doc.append(TableLite(row))
doc.write("name.html"))

kind regards Gerrit

 

[John Dean]

Checking out HTMLgen, I find the manual
to be quite terse, and difficult to crack.

Are there any examples or tutorials available
for this package?

Thanks,

Tobiah

Unfortunately, that's all there is with the exception of a very small
section in the O'Reilly book, "Python Programming".
What I would like to know is, is HTMLgen still actively maintained. The
reason I ask is because I have added quite a bit of new stuff and I would
like to have my addition included in the main distro. I have tried emailing
the author but I have not receive a reply.
If anybody would be interested I could make my mods available of download
from my web site at http://www.rygannon.com or http://www.totalrekall.co.uk