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AHTS stands for An HTML Templating System. It is an implementation of the templating system invented by Ars Digita, ACS Templating, in Python.
AHTS tries to mimic the designer side (i.e. the tags) of the ACS templating system as close as possible.
An example ACS-template looks like this (ex1.tml):
<html>
<head>
<title>[ahts] @title@</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>@title@</h1>
<slave>
</body>
</html>
The @...@ tags are identifiers (variables). They will be filled in whenever the template is parsed. The <slave> is something strange: it tells AHTS that this is a master-template, and the <slave> is the place where the content of the slave is to be filled in.
To use this master, you provide a slave-template (ex2.tml):
<master src="ex1.tml"> <property name="title">Welcome to AHTS</property> <p>AHTS stands for An HTML Templating System.</p>
The <master>-tag tells AHTS that this is a slave (I know, bad naming, but I didn't invent these tags). The <property>-tag means: define the variable named title as "Welcome to AHTS" in the master. When AHTS encounters a <master>-tag, it embeds the slave into the master automagically.
The result will look something like:
<html>
<head>
<title>[ahts] Welcome to AHTS</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to AHTS</h1>
<p>AHTS stands for An HTML Templating System.</p>
</body>
</html>
To produce this result you need a little python glue (ex.py):
#!/usr/bin/python
import ahts
ahts.write('ex2.tml', None)
That's all folks!
At this moment, there's only a Python implementation. I would like it to see a PHP, Perl, Java, ... implementation, so if you're a programmer fluently in one of these languages, go ahead. Perhaps we can have a P-language contest:-)
Have fun,
Ben De Rydt