On Aug 18, 2006, at 1:48 PM, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> >> Unless I'm very, very mistaken, with widgets, you can pass in any >> parameters you want, do things with those values, then render them as >> html. What more could you want? >> >> I can't think of anything of the top of my head that you couldn't do >> with a widget if you pass in the right parameters. > > I want to generate HTML output like this: Let's get one thing clear please: Widget's are NOT (only) HTML markup generators. They do generate markup but their main reason to-be (IMO) is to nicely pack and reuse common view elements and their resources (AutoCompleteField, CalendarDatePicker, TinyMCE, etc...) and to validate and coerce into python objects the input received from the web. > <p>item1<br/> > item2<br/> > ... > itemX</p> > > item1..itemX are either plain text strings or they are contained > widgets. It is trivial to manually generate text like this, but I want > to do it the idiomatic, widgets-way. My requirement for the solution > is that it must not be much more complex than this: > > def list_items_to_html(items): > return "<p>" + "<br/>".join(render(item) for item in items) + > "</p>" This seems like a task best suited for proper (X)HTML generators like elementtree, markup, stan, kid etc... IMO. Using widgets to do this would probably be overkill (unless each <p> needs some special javascript source files included, for example) Alberto --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
