Re: [Chicken-users] News from the Barnyard

[Felix Winkelmann]

Kirill Lisovsky wrote:
> >
> IMHO, SXML and quasiquote provide an elegant and Schemish solution:
> `(html
>      (head
>        (title "Hello"))
>      (body
>        (h1 "I'm running on: " (i ,(get-host-name)))
>        )))
>
> It may be XSLT/SXSLT transformed, SXPath queried or just
> serialized as HTML.
> This very simple example, implemented on top of example web server
> from Chicken distro, is available at:
> http://pair.com/lisovsky/download/barnyard/
>
> csi -case-sensitive web.scm

Wow!

> BTW: what's this spiffy current-request?

Thats a parameter that holds the current HTTP request record
in the web-server. It's not available in the HTTP extension
(but can of course be easily implemented).

> An HTML (or better yet XHTML) page with <?scheme ... ?>
> can be parsed from HTML above to SXML above using SSAX, but for some
> (code extensive) pages SXML sources may be more reasonable than (X)HTML.
> I've experienced this with XSLT stylesheets extended with Scheme.
> And vice versa, for markup-extensive pages with a few code
> (X)HTML is often preferable.

Yes, you need one translation phase less.

> > If anybody is interested, I can put it on the web-site.
>
> I'd like to look at it.

Yup. Stay tuned.


cheers,
felix