[parenscript-devel] Generating HTML in parenscript

Wed Nov 26 05:58:31 UTC 2008

There is now a who-ps-html macro that provides CL-WHO like syntax, in
addition to the ps-html macro. I've also made both preserve the cases
of tag and attribute keywords when printing.

Vladimir

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 6:59 PM, Vladimir Sedach <vsedach at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I still haven't gotten the darcs post-apply hook right,
> because this morning I pushed out the change that made ps-html work in
> both Parenscript and CL. I also decided to get rid of CSS generation
> altogether; chief reason being I didn't like the code and didn't want
> to rewrite it, secondary reason being that right now it is not a good
> idea to futz around with CSS on the client side for performance
> reasons (which is why I didn't want to rewrite the code).
>
> The one thing I didn't do was to provide CL-WHO like HTML markup. That
> will have to wait a little bit.
>
> Vladimir
>
> On Dec 6, 2007 7:15 PM, Gary King <gwking at metabang.com> wrote:
>> I've just started playing with Parenscript and feel confused about
>> HTML generation. Since Parenscript already includes (the unexported)
>> process-html-forms, it seems to be able to (almost) handle much of the
>> logic for simple HTML generation. Consider that
>>
>> > (parenscript::process-html-forms
>> >      `(:html
>> >        (:head (:title "ParenScript tutorial: 1st example"))
>> >        (:body (:h1 "ParenScript tutorial: 1st example")
>> >             (:p "Please click the link below." :br
>> >                 ((:a :href "#" :onclick ,(ps-inline
>> >                                           (alert "Hello World")))
>> >                  "Hello World")))))
>>
>> produces
>>
>> > (+ "<html/><head><title>ParenScript tutorial: 1st example</title></
>> > head><body><h1>ParenScript tutorial: 1st example</h1><p>Please click
>> > the link below.<br/><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"javascript:alert(\"Hello
>> > World\")\">Hello World</a></p></body>")
>>
>> It's easy to refactor process-html-forms to arrive at the (slightly
>> incorrect) HTML in a string:
>>
>> > "<html/><head><title>ParenScript tutorial: 1st example</title></
>> > head><body><h1>ParenScript tutorial: 1st example</h1><p>Please click
>> > the link below.<br/><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"javascript:alert(\"Hello
>> > World\")\">Hello World</a></p></body>"
>>
>>
>> and probably easy to futz with *js-inline-string-delimiter* and the
>> like to get the correct quotes around the body of the onclick handler.
>>
>> So... since Parenscript doesn't do this, I have to ask "Why not"?! It
>> would be nice to use Parenscript for simple HTML generation without
>> having to get (Portable) AServe or some other more full-featured HTML
>> generator. Am I missing something?
>>
>> thanks,
>> --
>> Gary Warren King, metabang.com
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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