Answer 1

It's not possible to build an entire page using just genshi.builder.tag -- you would need to perform some surgery on the resulting stream to insert the doctype. Besides, the resulting code would look horrific. The recommended way to use Genshi is to use a separate template file, generate a stream from it, and then render that stream to the output type you want.

genshi.builder.tag is mostly useful for when you need to generate simple markup from within Python, such as when you're building a form or doing some sort of logic-heavy modification of the output.

See documentation for:

• Creating and using templates
• The XML-based template language
• genshi.builder API docs

If you really want to generate a full document using only builder.tag, this (completely untested) code could be a good starting point:

from itertools import chain
from genshi.core import DOCTYPE, Stream
from genshi.output import DocType
from genshi.builder import tag as t

# Build the page using `genshi.builder.tag`
page = t.html (t.head (t.title ("Hello world!")), t.body (t.div ("Body text")))

# Convert the page element into a stream
stream = page.generate ()

# Chain the page stream with a stream containing only an HTML4 doctype declaration
stream = Stream (chain ([(DOCTYPE, DocType.get ('html4'), None)], stream))

# Convert the stream to text using the "html" renderer (could also be xml, xhtml, text, etc)
text = stream.render ('html')

The resulting page will have no whitespace in it -- it'll look normal, but you'll have a hard time reading the source code because it will be entirely on one line. Implementing appropriate filters to add whitespace is left as an exercise to the reader.

Answered by: Roland631 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 2

Genshi.builder is for "programmatically generating markup streams"[1]. I believe the purpose of it is as a backend for the templating language. You're probably looking for the templating language for generating a whole page.

You can, however do the following:

>>> import genshi.output
>>> genshi.output.DocType('html')
('html', '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN', 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd')

See other Doctypes here: http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/ApiDocs/genshi.output#genshi.output:DocType

[1] genshi.builder.__doc__

Answered by: Rafael816 | Posted: 01-03-2022

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