[racket-dev] Web language

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 20 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>> Can you do scribble/xml and if you want the XHTML specific stuff
>> use/require scribble/xhtml?
>
> Well, it's kind of raw in the sense of being able to support xml if
> you provide all the bindings you need to use -- and I didn't want to
> grab another point in the `scribble/*' namespace unless it's needed.
> So I'll do that if/when it becomes useful elsewhere.  (It will be
> pretty easy to move that part when that happens.)
>
> But if you said the above because you have some use for it now, then
> I'll be happy to do that.

I do not.

>
> BTW, that functionality in itself is not really something that is
> related to scribble -- so perhaps a better place for it would be
> something like `xml/functional'?  (Because you use it by defining
> functions that create element values, rather than the traditional
> translations from sexpr formats.)

Something like that would be nice.

>
>
>> If not, then I'd suggest just plain scribble/xhtml. You aren't
>> really making HTML as far as I know, so don't call it that.
>
> OK, I changed it -- but here are some of the points that made me think
> that `html' is the right choice:
>
> * We already have an `html' collection -- and if you'd want to produce
>  xhtml from it, then the reasonable thing to do would be to add some
>  parameter that determines the output format.  Same goes for the
>  existing `scribble/html-*' modules if scribble is updated to produce
>  xhtml.
>
> * Related -- if this ends up as some `xhtml' collection, people will
>  get the idea that both it and `html' are the same thing with
>  different output formats rather than being something completely
>  different.

These are compelling.

>
> * The `xhtml' is only a kind of a meta label -- the DTD, DOCID, etc
>  are all still called "HTML".

This is not, to me.

>
> In any case, I already did the rename (to `scribble/xhtml') so tell me
> only if you think that the above points make sense and I'll undo that
> rename.  (I don't have a strong opinion about it, and certainly much
> less than yours.)

My opinion is much less strong than it was before, so follow your whims.

Jay

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