[Twisted-web] validating nevow disk templates

[L. Daniel Burr]

Hi Phil,

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:50:09 -0600, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>  
wrote:

> How do people do this?
>
> When I attempt to validate pages using the FireFox / Web Developer  
> validator, I get a lot of complaints about tags that should be  
> self-closed e.g.:
>
> <input type="text">
>   <nevow:attr name="name"><nevow:slot name="name"/></nevow:attr>
> </input>
>

Generally, I try to avoid working to please markup validators, but that
may just be me ;)

> ...generates HTML like this:
>
> <input type="text" name="theName">
>
> </input>
>
> ...which is not only ugly, it doesn't validate.
>

A simple way to get around this is to eschew the cuter features of
nevow, and stick to plain-old render methods:

<input type="text" nevow:render="foo" />

In the render method, just grab the tag, twiddle its attributes in
whatever way best pleases you, and return it.

> I like stan, but I dislike the fact that it clutters up .py files and  
> also that it doesn't reload like the disk templates. OTOH I deeply  
> dislike the nevow:attr / nevow:slot pseudo-tags in the disk templates.
>

Sounds like you won't be happy either way ;)  Fortunately, something
like what I suggested above should work for your stated case, and
allow you to steer between the Scylla of stan and the Charybdis of
nevow:attr.

Hope this helps,

L. Daniel Burr