Hi Kenny -

Am 13.05.2007 um 03:51 schrieb Ken Tilton:

The first problem was writing the html to standard output instead of a string, the second problem is that cl-who does not quite work the way you think. What I did was replace as-html with the appropriate with-html-output form and then macroexpand.

Hm - ok - now that you say it ... Obviously the right thing to do. I was looking for Cells misuse anywhere - wrong. It was the CL-WHO side which I did not get right. Oh well....

Give it a try. Meanwhile, this works:

(defpackage #:whofix
  (:use #:common-lisp #:cells #:cl-who))

(in-package :whofix)

(defmacro as-html (var &body body)
  `(with-output-to-string (,var)
     (with-html-output (,var)
       ,@body)
     ))

As this is working as-html has to be changed because in CL-WHO  there's 

(defmacro with-html-output-to-string ((var &optional string-form
                                           &key (element-type ''character)
                                                prologue
                                                indent)
                                      &body body)
  "Transform the enclosed BODY consisting of HTML as s-expressions
into Lisp code which creates the corresponding HTML as a string."
  `(with-output-to-string (,var ,string-form
                                #-(or :ecl :cmu :sbcl) :element-type
                                #-(or :ecl :cmu :sbcl) ,element-type)
    (with-html-output (,var nil :prologue ,prologue :indent ,indent)
      ,@body)))

So, we can write:

(defmacro as-html (&body body)
  `(with-html-output-to-string (*standard-output* nil :prologue nil)
     ,@body))

Hm - coming back to your remark 
 
the second problem is that cl-who does not quite work the way you think

Well, I think I have understood that I have to output any data via write-string because this is what is to be inserted between tags... Anything else?

Thx anyway!

Frank