ANSWER: [ZPT] Preserve case in XML elements outside Zope

[Wade Leftwich]

After a bit of study, I did find a simple answer to my own question,
which I'll share here in case anyone else has been puzzled by this.

A PageTemplate object has a 'content_type' attribute, which defaults
to 'text/html'.  The _cook() method checks it to decide which parser
to use.

If you set the content_type to anything other than 'text/html' before 
using the write() method, case will be preserved.

>>> pt = PageTemplate()
>>> pt.content_type
'text/html'
>>> pt.write('<FOO/>')
>>> pt()
'<foo />\n'
>>> pt.content_type = 'fred'
>>> pt.write('<BAR/>')
>>> pt()
'<BAR/>\n'
>>> 

Notice that the html parser also adds a space in front of the
closing slash on an empty element.

-- Wade Leftwich
   Ithaca, NY



11/23/2001 1:36:46 PM, seb bacon <seb@jamkit.com> wrote:

>* Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> [011123 17:33]:
>> Wade Leftwich wrote:
>> > 
>> > Is there a switch I can throw somewhere to preserve the case of
>> > the identifiers? 
>> 
>> I would have thought that in xml, you shouldn't be relying on the
>> capitalisation of identifiers...
>
>fyi, xml is case-sensitive, and xhtml *must* be lower case.  nothing
>else useful to add though ;-)
>
>seb
>
>