[mod_python] templates in stead of PSP

Jim Gallacher wrote:
> Julien Cigar wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I suggest simpleTAL, it's a port or ZPT which doesn't require Zope.
>> It's quite fast (especially compared to Kid), and much more powerful
>> than Kid. Despite the fact that I don't like Zope, I must admit that
>> their template language is interesting. I especially like the concept of
>> "slots", which allow to split up and reuse templates in a very elegant
>> manner.
>> I haven't looked at the i18n support yet, but I *think* that simpleTAL
>> supports the i18n tags ..
>>     
>
> It is also possible to use the ZPT from Zope3 separately from Zope as
> well. I haven't done much beyond a little experimentation and that was
>   

Yep it can be found here http://svn.zope.org/zope.pagetemplate/trunk/
I should take a look at that ...

> some time ago. You'll need to google to find more information. I did
> find it to be  much slower than PSP (by a factor of 10??? - fuzzy memory).
>
>   

Yes it's slower ... first because it's written in Python and not in C 
(flex) as the PSP parser, seconde because it's an "XML-based" engine, 
where PSP, Clearsilver, ... are "text-based" engines (which are always 
faster).
But it doesn't take seconds to render the template, it's just ~0,3 ms vs 
~3 ms (there are some benchmarks here 
http://markup.edgewall.org/wiki/MarkupPerformance).

> As much as I like ZPT (and simpleTAL) I decided that the extra
> dependency and loss of performance was not worth the effort, but then I
> don't need Unicode stuff. ;) I do miss some of the ZPT features though.
>
>   

It's one of the things I didn't like in Zope: tons of dependencies (a 
true nightmare when you have to upgrade).

> Jim
>
>   

Julien