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`ht` templates for HTML

ht by Lang. 2009-07-02 Thu for Javascript, Emacs Lisp, and Scheme (Python coming soon)

Motivation

Templates are safe.
CSS selectors are compact and standard (see HAML).
printf-style replacements help control types.
Native lists facilitate writing code to produce ht arguments.

Examples

ht(["html",
    ["head",
     ["title", "template test"]],
    ["body",
     ["div#container",
      ["h1#head", "a title"],
      ["p#text", "%s"]]]]);

Sources

Javascript (also ASP Jscript): ./ht/ht.js

The javascript is the proof of concept, and it works. A larger part than I anticipated consists of utilities that are in the style of jQuery. Using ht server-side, I wanted jQuery manipulations pretty frequently, so perhaps the ht format works best as jQuery extension.

The jury is out.

Emacs Lisp: ht/ht.el

So far, the emacs lisp implementation of ht has yeilded some small utilities of convenience. See SRFI-2.el.