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Re: Guile & Sablotron
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Christopher Cramer |
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Re: Guile & Sablotron |
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:02:43 -0600 |
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:32:05AM -0800, Brian S McQueen wrote:
> Guile & Sablotron! Who is interested? I need to discuss this with
> someone! TTN! You do a lot of web work. Using a template engine is the
> way to go for handling the presentation of data. The programs can produce
> generic data of this sort:
>
> <sales>
>
> <division id="North">
> <revenue>10</revenue>
> <growth>9</growth>
> <bonus>7</bonus>
> </division>
>
> <division id="South">
> <revenue>4</revenue>
> <growth>3</growth>
> <bonus>4</bonus>
> </division>
>
> <division id="West">
> <revenue>6</revenue>
> <growth>-1.5</growth>
> <bonus>2</bonus>
> </division>
>
> </sales>
I'm pretty much sold on the idea of integrating templates into Recluse.
But that sort of output seems a little less elegant than I would like.
You'd end up with display or format calls outputting XML, which is an
improvement over outputting HTML, but I wonder if instead of outputting
XML we could just return a list.
Something like:
'(sales
(division (id "North")
(revenue 10)
(growth 9)
(bonus 7))
(division (id "South")
(revenue 4)
(growth 3)
(bonus 4)))
I think being able to write the whole thing using just sql->list, map,
append, etc. (or even backquotes) would make it a lot easier.
I suppose there might be interoperability benefits to using XML though.
Maybe we should have some ->xml and xml-> procedures.
--
Christopher Cramer <address@hidden> <http://www.pyro.net/~crayc/>
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-- Rep. Tom Davis, former NRCC Chairman