[lxml-dev] Templating

[Audun Wilhelmsen]

Hey

I'd like to use lxml for creating a simple HTML templating engine, by  
implementing some custom tags and attributes.
A simple example:
<p gc:text="foobar"></p>
Would replace the text content of the tag with the variable foobar.

But I'm not sure how to implement it using lxml. I've been using  
Genshi succesfully,  by simply processing the tag stream before  
serializing. But I'd like to have the DOM-like capabilities and speed  
of lxml.

What would be the best approach? I've been trying to use XPath to find  
all the elements and attributes with a gc: prefix, but with little  
success so far (maybe mixing namespaces with non-xml html doesn't work  
that well?).

Audun Wilhelmsen
	Student, NTNU, Norway