From: benjohn@...
Date: 2007-07-11T17:58:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating a language -- HTML + a few special tags

Dan Wrote:
> Rob Hunter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking to implement a "plug-in" language which is essentially
>> just
>> HTML plus a few custom tags that I want to support.  For example, some
>> source code in this language might look like
*snip*
> That sounds an awful lot like XML with XSL stylesheets... I don't know
> much about these, but I would start here
> http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_languages.asp
> if I wanted to learn.


Template engines also sound like a good fit. There are many for Ruby
(and I know I've seen pages that describe their various benefits). You
could start with looking at erb though, which is in the Ruby standard
library:

 http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/erb/rdoc/

Also, see this email:

 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/238970

Cheers,
  B