From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T11:19:00+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML generation

On Friday 12 September 2003 21:21, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> On Saturday, September 13, 2003, 10:45:10 AM, David wrote:
> > There's amrita.  A great concept, but I'm not too fond of the
> > implementation.
>
> Please avoid top-posting.  What do you dislike about the
> implementation?  I haven't used it for quite a while, but I understand
> that after 1.something it became a lot faster.
>

Sorry.

It just seemed a little hard to do the things I wanted to do (like href 
manipulation)  and I definately didn't like the way it automatically deletes 
things that are in the data structure (because they're nil).  (That's what I 
remember, but it's been more than a month...)

I took the concept and "grew my own" that's a little more flexible and 
powerful I think.  The "key" of  the hash can be an ID, or and ID + Attribute 
name, or in theory (though I haven't done this yet) an XPath expression.  On 
the right side, there are a number of possible "manipulators", including a 
"delete", and "appender", "replacement" (the default I think), a Form object 
which populates INPUT elements, etc.

I *intend* to package it up for use by others, but I'm so busy I don't know 
when I'll get it done.  I don't really want to release something like that 
without good doc, examples, and unit tests.

--
David Corbin <dcorbin@machturtle.com>