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Yes, this is exactly why I stayed away from things like this, despite my love for Racket and Clojure, until someone above pointed out the Enlive library. It let

by muraiki 14y ago

Yes, this is exactly why I stayed away from things like this, despite my love for Racket and Clojure, until someone above pointed out the Enlive library. It lets you use normal HTML files as your templates but requires no code in it (not even for loops!) Basically, you use CSS-style selectors to replace the contents of elements, giving you the full power of Clojure but without having to either put code in your templates or put HTML into your code. https://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial/ https://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial/

pavelludiq 14y ago
I have decided to investigate the possibility to include a sub-chapter to chapter 3 to discuss Caramel for people who like enlive(me included). I didn't already do so because caramel is brand new, and I haven't had the time to try it out beyond a few simple examples. The choice to use s-expressions was made because It makes it easier to just type code in a repl and experiment, without having to worry about dealing with templates, and also because I wanted the first example to fit in a single file.
- muraiki 14y ago
  Oh, I was addressing the Racket example and the response to it, as opposed to your book; I'm not familiar with what you are doing in the book. I am still going to look into your book, as I have no CL experience, only Racket/Clojure. But adding a sub-chapter on Caramel would be really nice!
  - gcr 14y ago
    Enlive looks great! If you prefer, Racket also includes a templating library that lets you compile arbitrary HTML from separate files right into your application: http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/templates.html?q=in-template http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/templates.html?q=in-t... It's not as fancy as enlive though (for example, because it's not sensitive to the structure of XML, user input isn't escaped automatically, which is quite an awkward tradeoff)

by muraiki 14y ago

pavelludiq 14y ago

I have decided to investigate the possibility to include a sub-chapter to chapter 3 to discuss Caramel for people who like enlive(me included). I didn't already do so because caramel is brand new, and I haven't had the time to try it out beyond a few simple examples. The choice to use s-expressions was made because It makes it easier to just type code in a repl and experiment, without having to worry about dealing with templates, and also because I wanted the first example to fit in a single file.

muraiki 14y ago
Oh, I was addressing the Racket example and the response to it, as opposed to your book; I'm not familiar with what you are doing in the book. I am still going to look into your book, as I have no CL experience, only Racket/Clojure. But adding a sub-chapter on Caramel would be really nice!
- gcr 14y ago
  Enlive looks great! If you prefer, Racket also includes a templating library that lets you compile arbitrary HTML from separate files right into your application: http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/templates.html?q=in-template http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/templates.html?q=in-t... It's not as fancy as enlive though (for example, because it's not sensitive to the structure of XML, user input isn't escaped automatically, which is quite an awkward tradeoff)