Re: What's the best way to solve this?

wat is markup block?But when I use that, how would I override the Markup
block with my markup?

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Dan Eloff <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to think of the best way to solve this problem with
> Cheetah, and drawing a blank here. I'm hoping the Cheetah experts
> around here will say, "oh, didn't you read the manual, that's easy"
>
> In many cheetah templates I have a block of xml I repeat, often
> several times in the file. The data is different, but it follows a
> similar structure.
>
> <Style>
>  <Key>foo</Key><Value>bar</Value>
>  <Key>...</Key><Value>...</Value>
>  ...
>  <Markup>
>    varied xml markup
>  </Markup>
> </Style>
>
> It's a little more complex than that, but you get the idea. Each time
> the key/value pairs differ, and so does the markup.
>
> I got to thinking that there has to be a way to do this easier with
> Cheetah. It's easy to generate the key/value pairs with a list of
> tuples or a dict. But I don't want to pass markup around in python
> variables, in fact I don't want to enter it outside the xml file
> itself, I'd rather keep writing the boiler plate xml.
>
> I want to do something like:
>
> #def StyleTemplate(key_value_pairs, ...)
>  #for k,v in key_value_pairs
>    <Key>$k</Key><Value>$v</Value>
>  #end for
>  #block Markup
>  #end block
> #end def
>
> But when I use that, how would I override the Markup block with my markup?
>
> Thanks,
> -Dan
>
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