About Pâté

Pâté (/ˈpæteɪ/) is a simple XPath-oriented, express-compatible template engine for Node.js

Features

Support for simple XPath selectors

Formatting via external lib

Compatible with Express view engine

Installation

npm install node-pate

Dependencies

Pâté depends on libxmljs, thus compilation is needed via node-gyp

Dependencies (more info):

Basic usage

Express example

Application:

var express = require('express'); var app = express(); var router = express.Router(); var pate = require('node-pate'); var formatter = require('./format_lib.js') // view engine setup app.engine('html', pate.__express); app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views')); ... router.get('/test', function(req, res, next) { res.render('templates/test.html', { xml: '<data><row><bread name="Bretzel" price="42.56" /></row></data>', xpath: '/*/*', format_lib: formatter }); });

Test:

cd test-express && node bin/www

Go to: http://localhost:3000/test

Namespaces

To use a namespace put it inside the options object in the form:

ns: { prefix: 'URI' }

Status

This software is still evolving. There are likely cases that it cannot handle, so file a feature request in github if there is something you think it should do.

Limitations

No array iteration support

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Inspirations

License

Pâté is provided under the MIT free software license. See the file LICENSE for the full text.