Matthis, Thank you for releasing this library, it looks very intriguing. I've been building web apps using HStringTemplate up until now, and one thing that always irks me is that- while the rest of my program is checked at compile-time- my template results need to be checked manually at runtime. One of my todo-list items was to write a library that fixed this: it looks like yours does just that.
I'll need to look into the library a bit more to get a better idea, but it seems like Bravo could work for my needs. One thing that concerns me is your comment that it allows embedding of Haskell expressions. In general, I try to keep a strict separation between login and presentation: can you explain exactly what type of expressions can be embedded? Also, while looking through the example, it looks like the library is making some automatic translations, like firstName -> userFirstName and user -> users. I've found these kinds of mappings to be brittle in the past; can you explain how this is done (or if I'm simply missing something obvious)? Finally, I can't seem to get it to compile on 6.12. Any chance of getting a version out that supports it? Thanks, Michael On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Matthias Reisner < matthias.reis...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm pleased to announce the first release of Bravo, a static text template > generation library, on Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Bravo. > > Bravo is a text template library that provides parsing and generation of > templates at compile time. Templates can be read from strings or files and > for each a new record data type is created, allowing convenient access to > all template variables in a type-safe manner. Since all templates are > processed at compile time, no extra file access or error handling at runtime > is necessary. > > Bravo is inspired by the PHP template engine Smarty and the Haskell > template library chunks. Compared to chunks, Bravo provides additional > features like conditional template evaluation, embedding of Haskell > expressions and customized data type generation. I'm going to add further > information to the HaskellWiki page ( > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Bravo) later. > > Bravo is still highly experimental and not well-tested, so bug reports and > additional feedback are very welcome. I'd also like to hear if you feel the > package dependencies are to restrictive. > > > Regards, > > Matthias Reisner > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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