I found this question interesting for two reasons: (1) A selected item has been specified which needs to be handled differently - at first glance suggests an iterative solution. (2) There is good support for html in clojure via libraries, so you should avoid string concatenation of tags.
So here is my solution: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/web/layout.clj Notably it bolds the selected item without any iteration, and returns a list representation of the html instead of a string. I'm not familiar with the html libraries to render this representation so forgive any inconsistencies there, but the output is: (:table (:tr (:item (:bold "cat")) (:item "dog") (:item "")) (:tr (:item "rabbit") (:item "frog") (:item "elephant"))) Which will be validated by the rendering library, giving an additional security that it is correct. In order to deal with the 'selected item' I had to jump through some hoops to treat collections as vectors and use assoc on that. Is there perhaps a more elegant way? Overall though I hope it is a good example of how and why it is a good idea to avoid string catting and instead think of the problem in terms of creating a structure. Really you are building a tree based upon some inputs. I'd be interested in other ways the tree could be constructed. Regards, Tim. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
