[Grok-dev] Re: grok.PageTemplate and content types

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Right. It should probably suggest that different parsers would be 
>>> used, e.g.:
>>>
>>>   index = grok.PageTemplate('<p />', parse='xml')
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> class MyView(grok.View):
>>>   grok.template('index.pt', parse='xml')
>>
>> I still am not convinced grok.template should be used for this. This 
>> would force anyone to spell out the name of a template if they only 
>> want to control the parser.
> 
> Good point. So let's use file extensions ;)

So instead of having people spell out the filename explicitly when not 
needed they'll have to rename a file instead? :)

File extensions are in my opinion not a good way to parameterize the 
templating engine; I think we can argue fairly well that the choice of 
an XML parser or not as a parameter of the whole templating activity in 
case of ZPT.

I would really like to let new extensions be used to hook in new kinds 
of templating engine altogether.

I think we can assume that parameterization of the template engine is 
something that occurs with enough template engines that we might want a 
special Grok knob for it.

Regards,

Martijn