BaseRender class added. It already implements a basic rendering, but nothing actually usable.

renders.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
+ # * Copyright (c) 2012 Christopher Ramírez blindedbythedark [at} gmail (dot] com.
+ # * All rights reserved.
+ # *  
+ # * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+ # * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 
+ # * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 
+ # * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, 
+ # * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 
+ # * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+ # *  
+ # * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+ # * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ # *  
+ # * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ # * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
+ # * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+ # * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
+ # * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING 
+ # * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER 
+ # * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+"""
+Secretary
+Take the power of Django or Jinja2 templates to OpenOffice and LibreOffice.
+
+This file implements BaseRender. BaseRender prepares a XML which describes
+ODT document content to be processed by jinja2 or Django template system.  
+"""
+
+import re
+import os
+import zipfile
+import xml.dom.minidom
+from jinja2 import Template as TemplateEngine
+
+
+class BaseRender():
+	"""
+		Prapares a XML string or file to be processed by a templating system.
+		
+		Use example:
+		render = BaseRender('content/xml', var1, var2.. varN)
+		render.render
+	"""
+
+	def __init__(self, xml_doc, **template_args):
+		self.template_vars = template_args
+		self.xml_document = xml.dom.minidom.parse(xml_doc)
+		body = self.xml_document.getElementsByTagName('office:body')
+		self.content_body = body and body[0]
+
+	# ------------------------------------------------------------------------@
+
+	def render_with_engine(self):
+		"""
+			Once the XML have been prepared, this routine is called
+			to do the actual rendering.
+		"""
+		template = TemplateEngine(self.content_body.toxml())
+		return template.render(**self.template_vars)
+
+
+	def render(self):
+		"""
+			render prepares the XML and the call render_with_engine
+			to parse template engine tags
+		"""
+		# TODO:
+		# Prepare {% blocks|if|for|etc %} for rendering
+		return self.render_with_engine()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	print 'Testing with content.xml\n'
+
+	render = BaseRender('content.xml', name='Christopher')
+	print render.render()
+
+	# xml_document = xml.dom.minidom.parse('content.xml')
+	# doc_body = xml_document.getElementsByTagName('office:body')
+	# doc_body = doc_body and doc_body[0]
+
+	# template = Template(doc_body.toprettyxml())
+
+	# print template.render( name='Christopher :)' )
+
+
+    
+