Module lemon.html.template.dreamweaverMX

Module desinged to provide an easy interface to allow python programs to output HTML pages based on
Dreamweaver MX Templates *.dwt files.

The module allows you to treat editable regions as member variables of the page.

Basic Use:

    
    from xecos import template
    page = template.Page("C:\xecos\Templates\main.dwt")

    # Preferred method using member variable notation
    page.Content = 'This is the content'        # Assignment overwrites the current text.
    page.Content += '...more content'           # String concatonation appends text to the end of the.
    print page.Content

    # Using mapping notation:
    page['Content'] = 'This is the content'     # Assignment overwrites the current text.
    page['Content'] += '...more content'        # String concatonation appends text to the end of the.
    print page['Content']

    # If 'Content' is the fourth editable region in the template, can access the valus using list notation:
    page[3] = 'This is the content'             # Assignment overwrites the current text.
    page[3] += '...more content'                # String concatonation appends text to the end of the.
    print page[3]

    # If there is more than one editable region we can use slice notation to get an array of values:
    print page[1:2]

    # Demonstrate some features

    page[0] = '0'
    page[1] = '1'
    page[2] = '2'
    page[3] = '3'

    print page[0:4]

    page[1:3] = ['b','c',]
    print page[0:4]

    print page.keys()
    print page.has_key('Content')
    print page.items()
    print page.count('Content')
    print page.index('3')

    # Finally print the whole document complete with the altered editable regions.    
    print page


Important Public Functions:
          
    set(key, value)             # Set the editable region "key" to "value"
    get(key)                    # Get the contents of the editable region "key" as a string
    append(key, value)          # Append the editable region "key" with the string "value"
    output()                    # Return the new page with all the ediable regions included
    asDictionary()              # Return the contents of the editable regions as a dictionary with the region names as keys.
    asList()                    # Return the contents of thr editable regions as a list

    getTemplateRegion(key)      # Get the contents of the editable region "key" as a string from the template
    getTemplateRegions()        # Return the contents of the editable regions of the tamplate as a dictionary

    swapTemplatePaths(new, old) # Used to change the text in the template (not in the Editable Regions). Used to update the links and paths in the template to point to the correct URL