Mini-CMS to create static pages by a XML structure, ReStructured Text and ZPT.
It sole purpose is to make creation of a simple page with focus in content easier... well like a CMS. But it focuses on developers and not on the end user.
Copy the .py files in a new directory. Then create the following files and directories:
src/structure.xml
It might look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<structure>
<section name="index" template="default" title="Home sweet home"/>
</structure>
name and title are mandatory. The name is used to create the file
hierarchy and it also used to find the section content files. The title is
used for e.g. generating menus. The template must be set on the root, but
is inherited to all childs.
Next add an index there:
src/index.rst
Note: the suffix desides, how to deal with the file there. Currently .rst
renders the content using docutils. Everything else is provided verbatim to
the template.
This defines the structure. Now that there is the template default
mentioned in the strucutre file we have to create it.
templates/default.html
And it might look like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>${section.title}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>${section.title}</h1>
<section>
${structure:content.index}
</section>
</body>
</html>
For each file generated there are the following vars:
[cms] The whole CMS object (see ofnircms.py) [root] The root section [content] A dict containing all the files (without subject) from the current section [section] the current section (more or less the data from the structure.xml)
This sets up the whole thing. No generate the pages by:
python ofnircms.py
If everything is fine, it creates the build directory and an index.html.
You might want to automize thins further with a Makefile to e.g. upload to
your hosting site.
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