[cl-who-devel] Macroexpansion of with-html-output body?

[Edi Weitz]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:18:09 -0600, "Eli Naeher" <enaeher at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems like it would be nice to expand any macros detected while
> walking the tree of the w-h-o body. This would allow users to define
> their own pseudo-tags a little more flexibly than is possible with
> convert-tag-to-string-list. In particular, it would allow the user
> to create a tag which modifies its body (as a tree) even when that
> body contains the expansion of another user-defined tag. I don't
> believe this is currently possible, as this hypothetical outer tag
> would have access only to the HTML strings returned by the
> convert-tag-to-string-list specialized on the inner tag and not to
> the relevant s-expressions.
>
> Is there any interest in a patch implementing this behavior?

Modifying CL-WHO's internals to allow this is on my todo list, but
there are a lot more things on this list, so the chances of me doing
this myself in the near future are not very big.  So, if someone wants
to do this, I'm all for it.  Please read this first, though:

  http://weitz.de/patches.html

In the case of CL-WHO I'd think that backwards compatibility would be
pretty important.

Edi.