[racket] comments requested from users of SXML and PLT xexprs

2010/12/23 Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
>>
>> Here's a simple example, which doesn't demonstrate all the features:
>>
>>   (html-template
>>     (html (head (title "Foo & Bar"))
>>           (body (h1 (*value* essay-title))
>>                 (p "Bunnies are nice." (br) "Yep."))))
>>
> ...
>
> Looking forward to seeing it (and the other libraries).
>
> We've been using Scala / Lift a bit recently, and it has an
> interesting approach to templating. For a start all template
> processing functions are NodeSeq -> NodeSeq, which is the Scala
> equivalent of List -> List. I.e. they get around the splicing problem
> by requiring you to always return an HTML element such as a span or
> div. Some may find this aesthetically displeasing but it is minor and
> makes the system simpler. I recommend the same; trying to keep things
> straight otherwise (particularly without a type system) is too hard.
>
> Lift templates contain no code, but rather specify the points, using
> conventions in the markup, where the template processor (called a
> snippet) should insert values. It is up to the snippet to, say, loop
> over some set of values and so on It is a bit an inversion of the
> usual template system, where we think of the template as a function
> from some values to XML.
>
> There is a bit more here:
>
> http://simply.liftweb.net/index-Chapter-6.html#toc-Section-6.1
>
> http://simply.liftweb.net/index-6.9.html#toc-Section-6.10
>
> Lift templates are not 100% awesome (for example, the contract they
> define is completely implicit) but I think they work better than
> having for-each / map etc. in templates.

Pete Hopkins had a version of Continue that worked that way. It was
pretty nice, because it used standard HTML ids and CSS style
attributes in the template to communicate to the program. I could dig
up the code and we could apply it more generally in Racket.

Jay


>
> HTH,
> N.
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