Added basic section on Chameleon

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+Chameleon
+---------
+`Chameleon <https://chameleon.readthedocs.org/>`_ is a template engine which is similar to
+the Chameleon is an HTML/XML template engine for Python.

+It’s designed to generate the document output of a web application, typically HTML markup or XML.
+
+The language used is page templates, originally a Zope invention [1], but available here as a standalone library that you can use in any script or application running Python 2.5 and up (including 3.x and pypy). It comes with a set of new features, too.
+
+The template engine compiles templates into Python byte-code and is optimized for speed. For a complex template language, the performance is very good.
+
+Here is an example of a template tags in Chameloen:
+
+The *page templates* language is used within your document structure
+as special element attributes and text markup. Using a set of simple
+language constructs, you control the document flow, element
+repetition, text replacement and translation.
+
+.. note:: If you've used page templates in a Zope environment previously, note that Chameleon uses Python as the default expression language (instead of *path* expressions).
+
+The basic language (known as the *template attribute language* or TAL)
+is simple enough to grasp from an example:
+
+.. code-block:: html
+
+  <html>
+    <body>
+      <h1>Hello, ${'world'}!</h1>
+      <table>
+        <tr tal:repeat="row 'apple', 'banana', 'pineapple'">
+          <td tal:repeat="col 'juice', 'muffin', 'pie'">
+             ${row.capitalize()} ${col}
+          </td>
+        </tr>
+      </table>
+    </body>
+  </html>
+  
 .. rubric:: References

 .. [1] `The mod_python project is now officially dead <http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/06/modpython-project-is-now-officially.html>`_