Module HTMLgen - A class library for the generation of HTML documents.

SYNOPSIS

# Classes
class AbstractTag
class AbstractTagSingle
class Area
class BR(AbstractTagSingle)
class BasicDocument
class Comment
class DefinitionList(List)
class Form
class Frame
class Frameset
class FramesetDocument(BasicDocument)
class Heading(AbstractTag)
class Href
class Image(AbstractTagSingle)
class ImageBulletList(List)
class InitialCaps
class Input
class List(UserList)
class MailTo
class Map
class Meta
class Name(Href)
class NonBulletList(List)
class P
class RawText
class Script
class Select(UserList)
class SeriesDocument(SimpleDocument)
class SimpleDocument(BasicDocument)
class Table
class Text
class Textarea
class URL

# Functions
def escape(text)
def getgifsize(path, data=None)
def markup_re(text, rex=None, marker=None, collapse=0)
def markup_regex(text, rex=None, marker=None, collapse=0)
def mpath(path)
def relpath(path1, path2)
replace (str, old, new[, maxsplit]) -> string

# Variables
string CONTYPE = 'Content-Type: text/html\0 ...
string DOCTYPE = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-/ ...
int I_am_a_list = 1
string __file__ = 'HTMLgen.py'
string __version__ = '2.0.6'

DESCRIPTION

Each HTML tag type has a supporting class which is responsible for emitting itself as valid HTML formatted text. An attempt is made to provide classes for newer HTML 3.2 and proposed tag elements. An excellant reference for HTML tag elements can be found at Sandia National Labs. Also, I used the HTML book by Musciano and Kennedy from O'Reilly (2nd. Ed.) as the definative reference.

The Document classes are container objects which act as a focal point to populate all the contents of a particular web page. It also can enforce consistent document formating according to the guidelines from the Yale Web Style Manual.

Features include customization of document template graphics / colors through use of resource files, minimizing the need for modifying or subclassing from the module source code. Support for tables, frames, forms (persistant and otherwise) and client-side imagemaps are included.

A newer implementation for the Table support is now included, TableLite(). In support of this there are new tag classes TD, TH, TR and Caption. These class instances can be assembled in any way to populate the TableLite container object.