I was thinking today about how much I hate writing programs to
generate HTML, so I sat down and wrote some code. There’s currently
nothing to make this work - it’s just an idea
tests a simple HTML generation toolkit - this is how a working
script ought to work
data = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]
puts RHTk.new do
title "A Test of RHTk - The Ruby HTML ToolKit"
include_css "style/rhtk.css"
body do
header1 “Here’s a sample header”, :class => 'modern’
table do
name "main table"
data.each do |i|
row do
data[i].each do |d|
column d
end
end
end
end
out "that’s all for now"
end
end
The RHTk constructor would return a string, all neatly tabified.
Here's a sample header.
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
that's all for now
The generation wouldn’t necessarily be sequential. The title and name
methods would store attributes and then everything would be converted
to a string at once.
I’d also like to add some kind of system for dealing with sessions and
forms. Possibly incorporating Borges into this would be a good idea.
I know that CGI.rb has something similar to this, but I’m intending
this to be a whole framework, rather than just some HTML generation
routines.
Any thoughts on this?
Bill Atkins
I was thinking today about how much I hate writing programs to
generate HTML, so I sat down and wrote some code. There’s currently
nothing to make this work - it’s just an idea
header1 "Here's a sample header", :class => 'modern'
Setting attributes in this manner can lead to unreadable code.
The generation wouldn’t necessarily be sequential. The title and name
methods would store attributes and then everything would be converted
to a string at once.
It looks like you’d then have to create a structure first, then render
it to HTML when it is complete.
I’d also like to add some kind of system for dealing with sessions and
forms. Possibly incorporating Borges into this would be a good idea.
Well, I’ve already ported the hard part of your framework in Borges
(simple HTML generation, render from a pre-built structure). You can
find this code here:
http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/borges/lib/Borges/HTML/?cvsroot=borges
What it does not do is pretty-print the HTML, because nobody working on
Seaside found it worth the effort to get it right. Instead you just get
a single long string.
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