[cl-who-devel] Runtime HTML generation

[Ron Garret]

Is there a Right Way to use CL-WHO to generate HTML at run time?  For example, suppose I want to do something like this:

(defun make-table (l)
  `(:table ,@(mapcar (lambda (row) `(:tr ,@(mapcar (lambda (cell) `(:td (str ,cell)))
                                                   row)))
                     l)))

(cl-who:with-html-output-to-string (*standard-output* nil :prologue t)
  ... (make-table l) ...)

This doesn't work because CL-WHO normally does all its work at compile time, but L is not known until run time.  I can hack this using a macro that calls EVAL, or by hacking the CL-WHO code to add another specially handled symbol, but before diving into that rabbit hole I thought I'd ask if there was already a way of doing this that I've overlooked.

Thanks,
rg