A template loader useful for writing templates with carefully controlled newlines and spaces while retaining readable template source code formatting.
Start the template with PTFTAG (`{#ptfable#}`, here) to allow it to be processed. Common problems with doing it to most templates as-is is use of newlines to separate words and multiple spaces between tags where spaces are still needed (which is problematic with `spaceless` tag as well).
Currently intended as a template loader wrapper, and is suggested to be used with cached loader. Example settings.py configuration:
_lp = lambda lo, *ar: (lo, ar,) # loader, arguments
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
_lp('django.template.loaders.cached.Loader', # cache
_lp('ptf.template.ptftemplateloader.Loader', # ptf
'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
#'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source'
), # ptf
), # cache
)
(change `ptf.` to wherever in python path you've put it).
You might also need couple of simple template tags for explicitly inserting newlines or whitespaces:
def br():
return "\n"
br = register.simple_tag(br)
# XHTML-XMPP-template compatible.
def brx():
return "<br />\n"
brx = register.simple_tag(br)
def ws():
return " "
ws = register.simple_tag(ws)
.