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How do I retain the whitespace in templates' blocks?

Answer 1

+1 A:

from docs:

spaceless

Removes whitespace between HTML tags. This includes tab characters and newlines.

Example usage:

{% spaceless %}
    <p>
        <a href="foo/">Foo</a>
    </p>
{% endspaceless %}

This example would return this HTML:

<p><a href="foo/">Foo</a></p>

Only space between tags is removed -- not space between tags and text.

You can also remove excess spaces/newlines manually, but that will reduce the readability of the template.

Antony Hatchkins 2010-01-04 21:50:16

This wouldn't work. This would mean that the template extending skeleton don't contain SHPAML code. And SHPAML code needs signficant whitespace. (SHPAML is essentially pythonic HTML, like HAML)

nubela 2010-01-04 21:55:44

as far as I understand it will treat shpaml tags as plaintext and will retain all the formatting. Only html tags are affected

Antony Hatchkins 2010-01-04 22:04:15

You are right on that, it does still treat shpaml tags as plaintext, however, it doesn't solve the problem of retaining whitespace when overriding the block content in skeleton.shpaml. I just tried it.

nubela 2010-01-04 22:09:40

Answer 2

A:

           #maincontent

asd

You mean misalignment here? Well, align your index.shpaml accordingly:

{% extends "includes/skeleton.shpaml" %}
{% block content %}
            asd
            .test
                .test2 | meh
{% endblock %}

Antony Hatchkins 2010-01-04 22:16:09

Answer 3

+1 A:

It looks like the SHPAML preprocessor is not getting invoked BEFORE Django. What I typically do is write all my documents in SHPAML with a .shpaml extension, and then I convert them to Django with the .html extension, and then let Django do its magic. So you will want statements like "extends" and "include" to refer to the .html document that has already been preprocessed.

Your base shpaml doc will look something like this:

html
    body
        #main_page
            {% block body %}
            {% endblock %}

And then the document that extends it will look something like this:

{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block body %}
    p
        This is a paragraph about {{ book }}...
{% endblock %}

And then you want to preprocess them BEFORE Django sees them. I usually preprocess them with a Python script right before doing "manage.py runserver."

Steve Howell 2010-01-04 22:25:54

Answer 4

A:

I've wrote a simple script to recursively explore a directory and find all shpaml files and convert them to *.htm. Thought I'd share it:

#!/usr/bin/env python

#===============================================================================
# Recursively explore this entire directory, 
# and convert all *.shpaml files to *.htm files.
#===============================================================================

import shpaml
import os, glob

count = 0

def main():
    global count
    cwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    convert_and_iterate(cwd)
    print("Done. Converted "+str(count)+" SHPAML files.")

def convert_and_iterate(path):
    global count

    for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(path,'*.shpaml')):
        #getting generic name
        file_basename = os.path.basename(file)
        gen_name = os.path.splitext(file_basename)[0]

        #opening shpaml file and converting to html
        shpaml_file = open(file)
        shpaml_content = shpaml_file.read()
        html_content = shpaml.convert_text(shpaml_content)

        #writing to *.htm
        html_file = open(os.path.join(path,gen_name+".htm"),"w")
        html_file.write(html_content)

        #incrementing count
        count += 1

    #transverse into deeper directories
    dir_list = os.listdir(path)
    for possible_dir in dir_list:
        if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(path,possible_dir)): 
            convert_and_iterate(os.path.join(path,possible_dir))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

nubela 2010-01-05 11:44:08

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