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embed multiple kid template files into a main one
In the main kid template file, I want it to have only div tags, each of which do only call a rendered kid file and paste content inside it. (like "include" function in php) but I don't know how to do this. Does someone have any ideas about it?
If you swap to genshi instead of the default kid you can do this with an include tag: <xi:include href="menu.html" /> Swapping to genshi is fairly easy, I think its a matter of confuration only. The templates tags works otherwise the same. You should rename the extensions from .kid to .html though.
You can first define a "base_layout.kid" template:
<html xmlns:py="http://purl.org/kid/ns#">
<head>
<title>App Name - ${page_title}</title>
<link href="layout.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
${page_specific_css()}
</head>
<body>
<h1>Now viewing: ${page_title} of App Name</h1>
<content>Default content</content>
<div class="footer">Page Footer Text</div>
</body>
</html>
Then replace the "content" tag in "page.kid" with whatever data you want:
<html py:layout="'base_layout.kid'"
xmlns:py="http://purl.org/kid/ns#">
<link py:def="page_specific_css()"
href="layout.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<div py:match="item.tag == 'content'">
<ul>
<li>Content Item 1</li>
<li>Content Item 2</li>
<li>Content Item 3</li>
</ul>
</div>
</html>
You can check whether you get the correct html in python shell (after removing all the identifiers used):
>>> import kid
>>> t = kid.Template("page.kid")
>>> print t.serialize()
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