Zen views for .NET with ZPT-Sharp

Overview

ZPT-Sharp is a page-template engine for creating dynamic HTML & XML documents. It uses an intuitive attribute-based syntax which is powerful yet easy to learn for designers & developers alike. ZPT-Sharp works on both the .NET and Mono frameworks.

Sample markup

<section class="product_list">
  <h2>Our products<h2>
  <ul>
    <li class="product_summary"
        tal:repeat="product here/ProductList">
      <a href="products/dummy"
         class="product_name"
         tal:attributes="href product/ProductDetailUrl"
         tal:content="product/Name">
        A sample product
      </a>
      <img src="assets/product-thumbnails/dummy.png"
           alt="Photo of A sample product"
           tal:define="altText string:Photo of ${product/Name}"
           tal:attributes="src product/ThumbnailImageUrl;
                           alt altText" />
      <div class="product_description"
           tal:content="structure product/HtmlDescription">
        <p>
          This product is rather good,
          <em>you should definitely buy one</em>.
          In fact, we're not sure how you lived without it.
        </p>
      </div>
    </li>
  </ul>
</section>

Next steps

Hello World tutorial

Install ZPT-Sharp into an ASP.NET MVC project and write your first view in five minutes.
NuGet packages

The recommended way to install ZPT-Sharp; choose a bundle that just works or customise the installed components.
Learn ZPT-Sharp

Learn to write great views, and take advantage of the full power of the ZPT syntax.

ZPT-Sharp is available under the permissive MIT license. It is developed in the open, hosted on GitHub. Contributions, including feature suggestions, bug reports, development or code review are always welcome.

Sample markup

Hello World tutorial

NuGet packages

Learn ZPT-Sharp