I am currently using Roxen and it's built-in pike-based markup language
RXML for my dynamic websites. PHP is naturally alot more flexible than
RXML, but there are some thing I -really- like about Roxen that I don't
know if I can have PHP replicate, please tell me if anything of the
following is doable (and preferably how):
Tags.
I -really- like the fact that RXML comes with XML-like tags for it's
built-in features, like the tag "<accessed />", where I can do stuff like:
<accessed per="day" /> visitors per day.
This is naturally just an example, but the thing I like is how I don't need
to escape from HTML syntax and into a programming language unless it's
neccesary for the built-in function.
My own tags.
In RXML, I can define my own tags, like this:
<define tag="line">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000"><img src="space.gif" width="1" height="1" />
</tr>
</table>
</define>
This way, everytime I use "<line />" in the page, it will exapnd to the
above, which very well could contain other RXML commands like SQL
connectivity and such.
My own containers.
In the same way, I can define containers, like:
<define container="headline">
<span class="headline"><contents /></span>
</define>
And when I type "<headline>Hello</headline>" '<contents />' is replaced
with "Hello", of course.
Now, what I would like is to mix regular PHP syntax with my made up tags.
Is there a way for me to have <foo /> parsed into a php-script in the page?
Maybe something like this, in pseudo-code:
define_container("headline"){
print "<span class=\"headline\">$_[0]</span>";
}
And so on... Do you understand what I am getting at?
Is there a parse-module for apache that I can have parse the HTML file this
way and have it execute things it recognizes?
Oh, and another question, in perl there is the "print qq{Hello "Sandman"};
function, where you can use '"' how much you like, I do really hate to
metaquote everything I do in PHP, so is there a similar function, and
preferably not the "print <<KEYWORD;" variant.
Anyway, thanks in advance, or something :)
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