from xmodule.x_module import XModule from xmodule.raw_module import RawDescriptor from lxml import etree class CustomTagModule(XModule): """ This module supports tags of the form <customtag option="val" option2="val2"> <impl>$tagname</impl> </customtag> In this case, $tagname should refer to a file in data/custom_tags, which contains a mako template that uses ${option} and ${option2} for the content. For instance: data/custom_tags/book:: More information given in <a href="/book/${page}">the text</a> course.xml:: ... <customtag page="234"><impl>book</impl></customtag> ... Renders to:: More information given in <a href="/book/234">the text</a> """ def __init__(self, system, location, definition, instance_state=None, shared_state=None, **kwargs): XModule.__init__(self, system, location, definition, instance_state, shared_state, **kwargs) xmltree = etree.fromstring(self.definition['data']) filename = xmltree.find('impl').text params = dict(xmltree.items()) self.html = self.system.render_template(filename, params, namespace='custom_tags') def get_html(self): return self.html class CustomTagDescriptor(RawDescriptor): module_class = CustomTagModule