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<LI><A HREF="#kid-0-9-3-release-notes" ID="id13" NAME="id13" CLASS="reference">Kid 0.9.3 Release Notes</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#kid-0-9-2-release-notes" ID="id14" NAME="id14" CLASS="reference">Kid 0.9.2 Release Notes</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#enhancements" ID="id15" NAME="id15" CLASS="reference">Enhancements</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#api-changes" ID="id16" NAME="id16" CLASS="reference">API Changes</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#add-support-for-python-2-5" ID="id17" NAME="id17" CLASS="reference">Add Support For Python 2.5</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#kid-0-9-1-release-notes" ID="id18" NAME="id18" CLASS="reference">Kid 0.9.1 Release Notes</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#bug-fixes" ID="id19" NAME="id19" CLASS="reference">Bug Fixes</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#layout-templates" ID="id20" NAME="id20" CLASS="reference">Layout Templates</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#py-match" ID="id21" NAME="id21" CLASS="reference">py:match</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#id1" ID="id22" NAME="id22" CLASS="reference">Enhancements</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#id2" ID="id23" NAME="id23" CLASS="reference">Layout Templates</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#kid-0-9-release-notes" ID="id24" NAME="id24" CLASS="reference">Kid 0.9 Release Notes</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#language-and-api-changes" ID="id25" NAME="id25" CLASS="reference">Language and API Changes</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#id3" ID="id26" NAME="id26" CLASS="reference">Layout Templates</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#convenience-functions" ID="id27" NAME="id27" CLASS="reference">Convenience Functions</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#invisible-comments" ID="id28" NAME="id28" CLASS="reference">Invisible Comments</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#id5" ID="id29" NAME="id29" CLASS="reference">Enhancements</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#command-line-scripts-now-work-on-windows" ID="id30" NAME="id30" CLASS="reference">Command line scripts now work on Windows</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#kid-0-6-release-notes" ID="id31" NAME="id31" CLASS="reference">Kid 0.6 Release Notes</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#id6" ID="id32" NAME="id32" CLASS="reference">Language and API Changes</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#kid-namespace-change" ID="id33" NAME="id33" CLASS="reference">Kid Namespace Change</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#py-omit-is-now-py-strip" ID="id34" NAME="id34" CLASS="reference"><TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:omit</SPAN></TT> is now <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:strip</SPAN></TT></A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#python-expression-substitution-syntax" ID="id35" NAME="id35" CLASS="reference">Python Expression Substitution Syntax</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#id8" ID="id36" NAME="id36" CLASS="reference">Enhancements</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#celementtree-support" ID="id37" NAME="id37" CLASS="reference">cElementTree Support</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#death-of-comment-wart" ID="id38" NAME="id38" CLASS="reference">Death of Comment Wart</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#improved-template-api" ID="id39" NAME="id39" CLASS="reference">Improved Template API</A><UL>
<LI><A HREF="#the-template-class" ID="id40" NAME="id40" CLASS="reference">The <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">Template</SPAN></TT> Class</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#the-kid-template-function" ID="id41" NAME="id41" CLASS="reference">The <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">kid.Template</SPAN></TT> function</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#match-templates-filters" ID="id42" NAME="id42" CLASS="reference">Match Templates / Filters</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#template-inheritance" ID="id43" NAME="id43" CLASS="reference">Template Inheritance</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#dynamic-attribute-generation-py-attrs" ID="id44" NAME="id44" CLASS="reference">Dynamic Attribute Generation (<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:attrs</SPAN></TT>)</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#upgrade-script" ID="id45" NAME="id45" CLASS="reference">Upgrade Script</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H1><A HREF="#id13" ID="kid-0-9-3-release-notes" NAME="kid-0-9-3-release-notes" CLASS="toc-backref">Kid 0.9.3 Release Notes</A></H1>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<OL CLASS="arabic simple">
<LI>Re-applied a patch from ticket [66] that fix a bug where comments caused
errors when in base templates.</LI>
<LI>Changed all of the lesscode.org links into kid-templating.org</LI>
<LI>Added and updated a few tests</LI>
<LI>Removed the NamespaceStack.set method and made NamespaceStack.pop return
the deleted value.</LI>
<LI>Set balanced blocks to be off by default.</LI>
<LI>Updated the parser to better handle interpolation of non-string types
in comments. Reported in #182</LI>
</OL>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H1><A HREF="#id14" ID="kid-0-9-2-release-notes" NAME="kid-0-9-2-release-notes" CLASS="toc-backref">Kid 0.9.2 Release Notes</A></H1>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H2><A HREF="#id15" ID="enhancements" NAME="enhancements" CLASS="toc-backref">Enhancements</A></H2>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<OL CLASS="arabic simple">
<LI>Updated to current version of ez_setup.py.</LI>
<LI>Improved importer.py, resolving tickets #103 (FutureWarnings) and #137
(using new import hooks).</LI>
<LI>The testing code can now figure out what testing modules to run
dynamically. In addition, the code also determines which functions
are tests dynamically. Tests that need pylib are skipped for those
that don't have it. If you run 'python test_kid.py' now you should
be seeing more tests executed.</LI>
<LI>Removed the revision history from the language and and instead
include a pointer to the Release Notes.</LI>
</OL>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id16" ID="api-changes" NAME="api-changes" CLASS="toc-backref">API Changes</A></H3>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<OL CLASS="arabic simple">
<LI>Allow the kid command to accept XML piped into it's stdin when '-' is
used as the filename.</LI>
<LI>Patch from #143. The load_template() function accepts an 'ns'keyword
argument to pre-populate the template module namespace with global
variables. Thanks!</LI>
<LI>Created an API to replace the various ways that configuration options
are currently set.</LI>
<LI>Allow the XML function to take a new keword parameter (xmlns) that sets
the default namespace for a fragment.</LI>
</OL>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id17" ID="add-support-for-python-2-5" NAME="add-support-for-python-2-5" CLASS="toc-backref">Add Support For Python 2.5</A></H3>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<OL CLASS="arabic simple">
<LI>Added support for xml.etree, which is the ElementTree packaged with
Python 2.5. Running 'make test' only checks xml.etree currently.</LI>
<LI>The __future__ imports have been moved to the top of the module to play
nicely in Python 2.5. I have also added 2.5 to the makefile so it will
be tested before each release.</LI>
<LI>makefile regression test includes Python 2.5.</LI>
</OL>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
</DIV>
</DIV>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H1><A HREF="#id18" ID="kid-0-9-1-release-notes" NAME="kid-0-9-1-release-notes" CLASS="toc-backref">Kid 0.9.1 Release Notes</A></H1>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H2><A HREF="#id19" ID="bug-fixes" NAME="bug-fixes" CLASS="toc-backref">Bug Fixes</A></H2>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id20" ID="layout-templates" NAME="layout-templates" CLASS="toc-backref">Layout Templates</A></H3>
<P>The parameters passed to a template with a py:layout were not visible in
named template functions or match templates.</P>
<P>A small bug existed in Python 2.3 where the dict.update() method was
being called incorrectly. Python 2.4 allows a list of tuples to be
passed to update(), whereas Python 2.3 does not.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id21" ID="py-match" NAME="py-match" CLASS="toc-backref">py:match</A></H3>
<P>The logic to apply the template matches has been reworked. This was due to
the discovery of some odd behavior when using multiple template inheritence.</P>
</DIV>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H2><A HREF="#id22" ID="id1" NAME="id1" CLASS="toc-backref">Enhancements</A></H2>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id23" ID="id2" NAME="id2" CLASS="toc-backref">Layout Templates</A></H3>
<P>A template type or name can now be dynamically passed into a template to be
used as the layout template.</P>
</DIV>
</DIV>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H1><A HREF="#id24" ID="kid-0-9-release-notes" NAME="kid-0-9-release-notes" CLASS="toc-backref">Kid 0.9 Release Notes</A></H1>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H2><A HREF="#id25" ID="language-and-api-changes" NAME="language-and-api-changes" CLASS="toc-backref">Language and API Changes</A></H2>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id26" ID="id3" NAME="id3" CLASS="toc-backref">Layout Templates</A></H3>
<P>There is a new feature in Kid for a template to specify a layout template
to which match templates, named template definitions, and template
parameters will be applied. This is useful for applying a generic set of
headers, menus, footers, etc. to a many pages without duplicating large
amounts of code in each page. More information and examples can be found in
the <A HREF="language.html#py:layout" CLASS="reference">py:layout</A> section of the Language Specification.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id27" ID="convenience-functions" NAME="convenience-functions" CLASS="toc-backref">Convenience Functions</A></H3>
<P>Kid Template instances now provide convenience funcitons <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">defined(name)</SPAN></TT>
and <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">value_of(name)</SPAN></TT>.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id28" ID="invisible-comments" NAME="invisible-comments" CLASS="toc-backref">Invisible Comments</A></H3>
<P>XML comments starting with a <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">!</SPAN></TT> character will not appear in the
serialized output of a template.</P>
</DIV>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H2><A HREF="#id29" ID="id5" NAME="id5" CLASS="toc-backref">Enhancements</A></H2>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id30" ID="command-line-scripts-now-work-on-windows" NAME="command-line-scripts-now-work-on-windows" CLASS="toc-backref">Command line scripts now work on Windows</A></H3>
<P>On Windows, the <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">kid</SPAN></TT> and <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">kidc</SPAN></TT> console commands can now be used
as conveniently as on Unix, since the Kid installer creates <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">kid.exe</SPAN></TT>
and <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">kidc.exe</SPAN></TT> launchers in the Python Scripts directory.</P>
</DIV>
</DIV>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H1><A HREF="#id31" ID="kid-0-6-release-notes" NAME="kid-0-6-release-notes" CLASS="toc-backref">Kid 0.6 Release Notes</A></H1>
<P>There has been significant change in version 0.6. This includes enhancements
and modifications to the template language and python interface.</P>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H2><A HREF="#id32" ID="id6" NAME="id6" CLASS="toc-backref">Language and API Changes</A></H2>
<P>The following changes are likely to impact existing code and
templates. Where possible, we have tried to maintain backward compatibility
but that wasn't possible in all cases.</P>
<P>The <A HREF="#upgrade-script" CLASS="reference">Upgrade Script</A> can be used to bring 0.5 templates up to 0.6 syntax.</P>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id33" ID="kid-namespace-change" NAME="kid-namespace-change" CLASS="toc-backref">Kid Namespace Change</A></H3>
<P>The Kid namespace has changed from <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">http://naeblis.cx/ns/kid#</SPAN></TT> to
<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">http://purl.org/kid/ns#</SPAN></TT>. The naeblis.cx domain is privately owned and
could expire some time in the future. purl.org is a system for establishing
and maintaining "persistent" URIs.</P>
<P>A temporary hack has been put in place to substitute references to the old
namespace URI with the new namespace URI. A warning is output when this
occurs. This will be removed in a couple of months so it is recommended that
templates be upgraded as soon as possible.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id34" ID="py-omit-is-now-py-strip" NAME="py-omit-is-now-py-strip" CLASS="toc-backref"><TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:omit</SPAN></TT> is now <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:strip</SPAN></TT></A></H3>
<P>Due to initial confusion many experienced with the name <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:omit</SPAN></TT>, it has
been renamed <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:strip</SPAN></TT>. The term "omit" was often read as "omit the
element and all descendants". The new term "strip" seems to better indicate
the semantic: "strip the start and end tag but process descendants."</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id35" ID="python-expression-substitution-syntax" NAME="python-expression-substitution-syntax" CLASS="toc-backref">Python Expression Substitution Syntax</A></H3>
<P>The syntax of brace expansions has been modified match more closely with
existing Python substitution syntax. In 0.5 python expressions enclosed in
curly braces ({}) were evaluated and their results substituted. In 0.6, the
rules have changed as follows:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<OL CLASS="arabic simple">
<LI><TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">$$</SPAN></TT> is an escape; it is replaced with a single $.</LI>
<LI><TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">$name</SPAN></TT> substitutes a variable value.</LI>
<LI><TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">${expr}</SPAN></TT> substitutes the result of evaluating any python expression.</LI>
</OL>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>See <A HREF="language.html#python-expression-substitution-expr" CLASS="reference">Python Expression Substitution</A> in the Language Reference.</P>
<!-- warning:

The expression substitution **is not** backward compatible. If you use the
old-style brace-expansion, you will need to upgrade your templates for Kid
0.6. -->
</DIV>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H2><A HREF="#id36" ID="id8" NAME="id8" CLASS="toc-backref">Enhancements</A></H2>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id37" ID="celementtree-support" NAME="celementtree-support" CLASS="toc-backref">cElementTree Support</A></H3>
<P>Kid now uses cElementTree if it is available. Preliminary tests show
moderate performance increases. In most cases, we're seeing template parse
and execution time increase by about 15%. The poor increase (relative to
other cET/ET numbers) is due to the fact that we're not using cElementTree's
native parser as it doesn't support comments or processing instructions. The
plan is to lobby the effbot organization to add these features (hint, hint:
send patches) so that we can get the huge increases people are seeing
elsewhere.</P>
<P>Kid automatically determines whether cElementTree is available and uses it
if so. If cElementTree is not available, Kid falls back on Python
ElementTree. If you want to turn off use of cElementTree, you can set the
environment variable <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">KID_NOCET</SPAN></TT> to 1.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id38" ID="death-of-comment-wart" NAME="death-of-comment-wart" CLASS="toc-backref">Death of Comment Wart</A></H3>
<P>In versions of Kid prior to 0.6, the first line of an embedded Python code
block had to be a Python comment (#). This was due to Python's whitespace
semantics. Christoph determined a process for establishing the correct indent
levels without requiring a comment as the first line.</P>
<P>Starting in Kid 0.6, a comment is no longer required to be the first line in
a <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">&lt;?python?></SPAN></TT> processing instruction. It is also possible to have single
line code blocks:</P>
<PRE CLASS="literal-block">
&lt;?python x = 10 ?>
</PRE>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id39" ID="improved-template-api" NAME="improved-template-api" CLASS="toc-backref">Improved Template API</A></H3>
<P>The Python interfaces have been reworked significantly and now are very
similar to Cheetah's. There are two preferred methods for accessing a
template.</P>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H4><A HREF="#id40" ID="the-template-class" NAME="the-template-class" CLASS="toc-backref">The <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">Template</SPAN></TT> Class</A></H4>
<P>The first method existed in 0.5 but was not documented well. If you have
enabled the kid import hooks, then you can import a template and create an
instance of the template by accessing the <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">Template</SPAN></TT> class exposed by the
module:</P>
<PRE CLASS="literal-block">
import kid ; kid.enable_import()
import mytemplate
template = mytemplate.Template(foo='bar', bling=1)
print template.serialize()
</PRE>
<P>The primary difference from 0.5 is that template variables are passed to the
<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">Template</SPAN></TT> constructor instead of to the individual execution methods
(<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">serialize</SPAN></TT>, <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">generate</SPAN></TT>, <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">write</SPAN></TT>, <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">pull</SPAN></TT>).</P>
<P>It is also possible to set template variables after the template instance
is created by simply assigning to template object instance:</P>
<PRE CLASS="literal-block">
template = mytemplate.Template()
template.foo = 'bar'
template.bling = 1
print str(template)
</PRE>
<P>Here we see another small addition: template instances implement <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">__str__</SPAN></TT>
and <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">__unicode__</SPAN></TT> built-ins. These methods are equivalent to calling
<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">serialize(encoding='utf-8')</SPAN></TT> and <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">serialize(encoding='utf-16')</SPAN></TT>,
respectively.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H4><A HREF="#id41" ID="the-kid-template-function" NAME="the-kid-template-function" CLASS="toc-backref">The <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">kid.Template</SPAN></TT> function</A></H4>
<P>The <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">kid.Template</SPAN></TT> function works much like <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">Template</SPAN></TT> class
constructors but takes an additional parameter that allows the template to
be loaded from a file, string, or module name. It is sometimes easier to
manage templates as files on disk rather than as python modules.</P>
<P>Example:</P>
<PRE CLASS="literal-block">
from kid import Template
# create a template from file
template = Template(file='mytemplate.kid', foo='bar', bling=1)

# create a template from string
template = Template(source="&lt;p>${foo}&lt;/p>", foo='bar')

# create a template from a python module name
template = Template(name='templates.mytemplate', foo='bar')
</PRE>
<P>This last form is sometimes useful because it doesn't require the kid
import hook to be enabled and it also allows template names to be specified
at run-time.</P>
<P>See <A HREF="guide.html#template-function" CLASS="reference">kid.Template function</A> in the User's Guide for more info.</P>
</DIV>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id42" ID="match-templates-filters" NAME="match-templates-filters" CLASS="toc-backref">Match Templates / Filters</A></H3>
<P>Match Templates are a cross between XSLT's match templates and JSP tag
libraries. They allow a set of filters to be put in place that matches
infoset items generated by a template so that output can be modified.</P>
<P>While match templates provide a general purpose mechanism for transforming
XML content, it is especially useful in a couple of situations which have
driven the design:</P>
<OL CLASS="arabic simple">
<LI>Creating tag libraries that inject new tags into an XML vocabulary.</LI>
<LI>Applying headers/footers without inserting place-holders into the
source document/template.</LI>
</OL>
<P>See <A HREF="language.html#match-templates" CLASS="reference">Match Templates</A> in the Language Reference for more information.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id43" ID="template-inheritance" NAME="template-inheritance" CLASS="toc-backref">Template Inheritance</A></H3>
<P>Templates now support multiple inheritance of template functions
(<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:def</SPAN></TT>) and match templates (<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:match</SPAN></TT>). A template indicates that
it extends one or more other templates by setting the <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:extends</SPAN></TT>
attribute on the root element:</P>
<PRE CLASS="literal-block">
&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
&lt;html py:extends="'common.kid', 'forms.kid'" ...
</PRE>
<P><TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:extends</SPAN></TT> may contain template modules, Template classes, or strings
specifying template paths relative to current template file.</P>
<P>See <A HREF="language.html#template-reuse" CLASS="reference">Template Reuse</A> in the Language Reference for more information.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H3><A HREF="#id44" ID="dynamic-attribute-generation-py-attrs" NAME="dynamic-attribute-generation-py-attrs" CLASS="toc-backref">Dynamic Attribute Generation (<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:attrs</SPAN></TT>)</A></H3>
<P>A new <TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">py:attrs</SPAN></TT> attribute has been added that allows attributes to be
specified using a dictionary.</P>
<P>See <A HREF="language.html#dynamic-attributes-py-attrs" CLASS="reference">Dynamic Attributes</A> in the Language Reference for more information.</P>
</DIV>
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="section">
<H2><A HREF="#id45" ID="upgrade-script" NAME="upgrade-script" CLASS="toc-backref">Upgrade Script</A></H2>
<P>Due to the amount of changes in template syntax, a migration script is
provided that can upgrade kid 0.5 templates to 0.6 syntax. This includes
changing the namespace, py:strip, and new expression substitution
syntax.</P>
<P>The script can be found in the source distribution as
<TT CLASS="docutils literal"><SPAN CLASS="pre">misc/upgrade-0.6.py</SPAN></TT>. The script can take multiple file names and
upgrades each in-place while preserving a backup. For instance:</P>
<PRE CLASS="literal-block">
$ python upgrade-0.6.py path/to/template.kid
Upgraded: template.kid...
</PRE>
<P>On posix systems, you can upgrade a bunch of kid templates under the current
working directory with the following command:</P>
<PRE CLASS="literal-block">
$ find . -name '*.kid' | xargs python upgrade-0.6.py
Upgraded: template1.kid...
Upgraded: template2.kid...
Upgraded: template3.kid...
Upgraded: template4.kid...
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