WARNING

*As you can see, the latest release is VERY old. This project is DEAD and has been superceded by Zope Page Templates. You might also want to check out my implementation of Page Templates which takes back the best ideas from HiperDom.*

HiperDom is a template renderer which parses a XML document and "dynamizes" the content, removing, multiplying or modifying elements according to a set of special tags.

Its purpose is similar to DTML, but it is:

• simpler
• less powerful
• being less powerful, it forces you to put the application logic in separate (DTML, Python or Perl) Methods, and leave the template for presentation only
• valid XML which can be previewed independently of Zope - for example, you may use a xHTML editor (perhaps one of the fancy WYSIWYG ones) to create the template and then upload it to Zope

Its model is similar to xmlc, but it is:

• simpler
• non-intrusive, as all attributes with special meaning to HiperDom are in the "hdom:" namespace.

You can take a look at a sample template.

The Product name is meant to imply that the DOM attributes are made "hot" by using them to manipulate the contents of the document, in the same way as hipertext is text where some parts are made "hot"; at the same time, it's a pun because it is being developed on request from "Hiperl�gica":http://www.hiperlogica.com.br.

There is also a wiki to discuss the Product and the language.

Oh, before you ask; the icon represents a burning tree. No, I don't approve burning trees, unless it's a DOM tree. ;-)

Dependencies

Versions up to 0.3 need the OLD (0.5.x) Python XML libraries from the XML-sig. If you wish to run it, download a compatible version here.

Versions 0.4 and newer need the NEW (0.6.x) PyXML. OTOH, it doesn't seem to run on Zope 2.3a. Sorry. :-)