Re: [Web-SIG] html-gen-ish libraries; what's best?

2006-04-04 Thread Jacob Smullyan
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:26:28PM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > Opinions? I have an opinion about a related matter, namely, a convenience syntax for generating nodes. One thing I like a lot about stan is its general thrust towards having a concise, usable, sexp-ish syntax for this task that perm

Re: [Web-SIG] html-gen-ish libraries; what's best?

2006-04-04 Thread Brian Beck
Ian Bicking wrote: > While the library would ideally have some (optional) knowledge of HTML, > it would be out of scope to have it be a general page-builder (like > HTMLGen, and a bit like markup.sf.net). I'm more interested in just > using it to build fragments. Never used it, but I came across

[Web-SIG] html-gen-ish libraries; what's best?

2006-04-04 Thread Ian Bicking
Are there any opinions on the best HTML/XML generation libraries out there? For example, HTMLGen being the original (but too eclectic). Stan is often also sited (http://divmod.org/projects/nevow#stan). I have an extension of ElementTree along these lines in FormEncode (http://svn.formencode.o