From: dejaspam@... (Bill Atkins) Date: 2004-04-15T00:09:14+09:00 Subject: New HTML Toolkit Idea I was thinking today about how much I hate writing scripts to generate HTML and I sat down and wrote some code. I'm thinking about making a simple toolkit to generate HTML in an abstract way. Here's my sample code: # tests a simple HTML generation toolkit - this is how a working script ought to work data = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]] puts RHTk.new do title "A Test of RHTk - The Ruby HTML ToolKit" include_css "style/rhtk.css" body do header1 "Here's a sample header", :class => 'modern' table do data.each do |i| row do data[i].each do |d| column d end end end end out "that's all for now" end end The RHTk constructor assembles a string of HTML based on all the code executed within its block. The output would be neatly tabified, giving you something like this: <link rel="stylesheet" href="style/rhtk.css"> </head> <body> <h1 class="modern">Here's a sample header.</h1> <table> <!-- main table begin --> <tr> <td> 1 </td> <td> 2 </td> <td> 3 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 4 </td> <td> 5 </td> <td> 6 </td> </tr> <!-- main table end --> that's all for now </body> </html> Is this worth pursuing? Is there something already in existence that does the same thing? I'd like to hear what everyone's thoughts about this are. Bill