Genshi (templating language)

Last updated
Genshi
Developer(s) Edgewall Software
Initial releaseAugust 3, 2006;17 years ago (2006-08-03)
Stable release
0.7.7 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 22 April 2022;20 months ago (22 April 2022)
Repository
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Template Engine
License 3-clause BSD license [2]
Website genshi.edgewall.org

Genshi is a template engine for XML-based vocabularies written in Python. Genshi is used to easily insert generated output into XML-based languages, usually HTML, and reuse elements between documents. Genshi's syntax is based on Kid, but its architecture is different. Genshi aims to implement some of its functionality while processing templates faster, by dynamically processing templates using a stream based API, instead of compiling templates to Python code. [3]

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Genshi can be used with several Python web frameworks, such as CherryPy, [4] [5] TurboGears, [6] Pylons [7] and web2py. [8] Genshi was the default templating language for TurboGears from versions 1.1 [9] to 2.3.8. [10]

Genshi markup

Genshi makes use of namespaces to embed instructions into HTML. A typical instruction is given as an attribute, with a Python expression inside the quotes. For example, the following will render a paragraph that shows 4:

<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"><body><ppy:content="2+2">This will be replaced with 4</p></body></html>

Because of the use of namespaces, Genshi can be used in WYSIWYG HTML editors. [11] [12]

Differences between Kid and Genshi

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References

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