Re: Spyce example

--Jonathan Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Cool!  That's the sort of thing I hoped to see active tags used for.

Thanks - I'm glad you like the example. I find that tags good for any HTML 
elements that will be repeated on all pages. By abstracting them into the 
tag file maintenance is easier and the HTML code is more readable (it's 
more semantic).

> (Personally I would put the html generation part of writeLinkHTML in the
> .spi, but whatever floats your boat. :)

I agree - that keeps HTML out of .py files (better separation of content, 
presentation and code). So I changed the writeNavHTML tag to the following:

[[.begin name=writeNavHTML singleton=True ]]
    [[.attr name=currpage ]]

    [[\
    # navigation links
    tNavLinks = (('Home', 'index.spy'),
            ('Technology', 'tech.spy'),
            ('License', 'license.spy'),
            ('Contact', 'contact.spy'),
            ('Trac (Source Code Management)', 'http://trac.karda.org'))

    def writeLinkHTML(sCurrPage):
        sHTML = '<ul>\n'
        for tLink in tNavLinks:
            if tLink[0] == sCurrPage:
                sHTML += '<li class="current">' + tLink[0] + '</li>\n'
            else:
                sHTML += ('<li><a href="' + tLink[1] + '">' +
                        tLink[0] + '</a></li>\n')
        sHTML += '</ul>\n'
        return sHTML
    ]]

    <div id="navbox">
        [[=writeLinkHTML(currpage) ]]
    </div>
[[.end]]

Now the tag file no longer needs to import the .py file. I also renamed the 
tag file so it has the .spi extension.

--
Bruce Webber
[email protected]
http://brucewebber.us


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