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TAL Specification 1.4. TAL Specification Version 1.4 This specification supercedes TAL Specification 1.2 .

TAL Specification 1.4

The Template Attribute Language is an AttributeLanguage used to create dynamic templates. It allows elements of a document to be replaced, repeated, or omitted. The statements of TAL are XML attributes from the TAL namespace. These attributes can be applied to an XML or HTML document in order to make it act as a template. A TAL statement has a name (the attribute name) and a body (the attribute value). Web Templates, Flash Templates, Website Templates Design - Template Monster. 7 Barebones Rails Apps To Kick Start Your Development Process. Back in 2005, the first Rails application a novice Rails developer produced was typically a simple blog-like system.

7 Barebones Rails Apps To Kick Start Your Development Process

This was in no small part thanks to a great screencast produced by David Heinemeier Hansson demonstrating how to create such a system in 15 minutes. Sadly, these screencasts have not been updated to 2008 standards, so sometimes it can be hard to figure out where to start. Even for experienced developers, it can make sense to have a generic / base / bare-bones application from which to work. Why deal with installing the same plugins over and over and laying down the same generic code? So, here are several barebones Rails apps that might provide a good base for your own template. Bort Bort (Github repository) is a very new (first released this month) barebones Rails app by Jim Neath, a British Rails developer.

Bort E-mail Login Fork A fork of Bort by Matt Hall that uses e-mail addresses for logins rather than usernames. The Caboose Sample App Karmi's Rails I18N Demo App Insoshi. Andy McKay's blog. This tutorial is a re-writing of the Django Tutorial in the documentation on the Django website.

Andy McKay's blog

In this I step through the same tutorial covering the templating sections, but focusing on how they would look using Page Templates instead of the Django templating language. The demo code and so on is from that site and all credit to the authors of that tutorial. As ever all mistakes are mine. To run the code in this demo, you'll need Simple TAL and Simple Template. Check out Simple Template from here and follow the readme contained within that directory: svn co If you don't fancy typing everything in, then please checkout code used in these examples from: svn co Already to go. Simple template provides key api calls for rendering templates, that you can use instead of the builtin ones. From django.template import Context, loader Use: from django.contrib.simpletemplate.public import get_template Instead of the given example, use: The key changes here are line 1, with that different import. TAL - Process TAL templates with Perl. Template::TAL - Process TAL templates with Perl my $tt = Template::TAL->new( include_path => ".

TAL - Process TAL templates with Perl

/templates" ); my $data = { foo => "bar", }; print $tt->process("test.tal", $data); TAL is a templating language used in the Zope CMS. Template::TAL is a Perl implementation of TAL based on the published specs on the Zope wiki. TAL templates are XML documents, and use attributes in the TAL namespace to define how elements of the template should be treated/displayed. My $template = <<'ENDOFXML'; <html xmlns:tal=" tal:content="title"/></head><body><h1>This is the <span tal:replace="title"/> page</h1><ul><li tal:repeat="user users"><a href="? " This template can be processed by passing it and the parameters to the process method: Alternativly you can store the templates on disk, and pass the filename to process directly instead of via a reference (as shown in the synopsis above.)

For more infomation on the TAL spec itself, see new( include_path => ['/foo/bar'], charset => 'utf-8' ) include_path charset. Template Attribute Language for PHP. ZPT - Zope Page Templates. Navigation The documentation has been moved to a new location¶ Note You have arrived at this page, because you tried to access a deep link on plone.org developer manual and this link has been moved. plone.org developer documentation has moved to Sphinx based developer documentation management system, as this provides easier document management, is aligned with other Python projects and allows us to integrate documentation from several source code packages under the same umbrella.

ZPT - Zope Page Templates

Unfortunately, due to the content migration to Sphinx, we no longer can redirect you to the old document, as there doesn't exist 1:1 mapping between the old plone.org content and new developer.plone.org content. Starting points to find the old documentation you are looking for For any questions please send email to plone-docs mailing list. Appendix C: Zope Page Templates Reference. FrontPage. Home contents changes options help subscribe FrontPage ... last edited 2 years ago by ZPT - Zope Page Templates General documentation on ZPT for Zope 2 users can be found in the Zope Book: and for advanced ZPT topics: The specification documents continue to provide value, particularly: TAL , TALES , METAL The OriginalFrontPage contains all of the historical project links. has a more complete list of docs.

Non-Zope Implementations Page Templates, or subsets such as TAL, have now been implemented in several languages. Zope Page Templates. SimpleTAL.