LICENSE

Template Compiler
OSI Certified Open Source Software
Copyright (c) 2003 Computel Standby BV

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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We explicitly claim no rights to the output generated by this program.

SHORT MANUAL

The template style for this template compiler is based on the phpBB template style. There are three types of control statements that can be used in the templates. These are explained below. The dynamic content for the template can be stored in a dictionary which is then applied to the template. In the examples we call this dictionary: content_dict

Control structures:
- Variable substitution:
Every occurrence of
{VARIABLE_NAME}
will be replaced with the content of
content_dict['VARIABLE_NAME']

Loops: A loop will show the content of a list of sub-dictionaries. This can be best explained with an example. Take for example the following content_dict:

content_dict = {

      'TITLE':    'This is a title',
      'ITEMS':    [{
            'NAME':    'Item one',
            'VALUE':   'Value one'
         }, {
            'NAME':    'Item two',
            'VALUE':   'Value two'
         }]

}

Which can be applied to the following example template:

<html><head>
<title>{TITLE}</title>
</head><body>

     <h1>{TITLE}</h1>
     <table>
     <!-- BEGIN ITEMS -->
       <tr>
         <td>{ITEMS.NAME}</td>
         <td>{ITEMS.VALUE}</td>
       </tr>
     <!-- END ITEMS -->
     </table>

</body></html>

This will result the following output:

<html><head>
<title>This is a title</title>
</head><body>

     <h1>This is a title</h1>
     <table>
       <tr>
         <td>Item one</td>
         <td>Value one</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td>Item two</td>
         <td>Value two</td>
       </tr>
     </table>

</body></html>