Re: populating template from a dom object

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Tim Arnold wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm new to Cheetah. I was wondering if it's possible to populate a set of Cheetah templates from a document object model.
> For example, I have a DocBook XML file that I can read and parse into a tree using lxml; is there a way I can apply a set of Cheetah templates to render that object into HTML?
> 
> I know about the DocBook XSLT stylesheets, I was just wondering if the Cheetah template method is feasible.

There's no built-in "magic" for handling this kind of scenario; that said if
you're using lxml and you've already got a handful of Element objects you can
likely write some template logic (that phrase sounds wrong ;)) to do your
translation.



Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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