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[cl-who-devel] strange behaviour: package and/or macro relevant?
by olivier buechel 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

This works: (in-package :cl-user) (let* ((txt1 "hallo") (txt2 "yellow")) (cl-who:show-html-expansion (str nil :indent t) ((:a) txt1 txt2))) This does not work and hell breaks out when compiling: (defpackage :dummy-package (:use :cl :cl-user :cl-who)) (in-package :dummy-package) (let* ((txt1 "hallo") (txt2 "yellow")) (cl-who:show-html-expansion (str nil :indent t) ((:a) txt1 txt2))) ==> (LET ((STR STR)) (PROGN (WRITE-STRING " <a> " LET ((#:G1 NIL)) (WHEN #:G1 (PRINC #:G1 STR))) TXT1 (WRITE-STRING " " LET ((#:G2 NIL)) (WHEN #:G2 (PRINC #:G2 STR))) TXT2 (WRITE-STRING " </a>" LET ((#:G3 NIL)) (WHEN #:G3 (PRINC #:G3 STR))))) Well, I really don't get it with packages, so I just tried around and found that this code here works: (defpackage :dummy-package (:use :cl :cl-user :cl-who)) (in-package :dummy-package) (let* ((txt1 "hallo") (txt2 "yellow")) (cl-who:show-html-expansion (s nil :indent t) ((:a) txt1 txt2))) So kind-of it's not the package alone the problem, somehow it's the combination of package and using str in macro Ha, just tried with fmt instead of str: same problem Hint: Maybe no protection with gensym? And why does it work in cl-user?!? Using cl-who-0.11.1 And yes, I was in hell... And now (after changing str to s) I want just to understand what happend to me. thanks olli

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[cl-who-devel] Changing *attribute-quote-char*
by Andrei Stebakov 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

By default the variable is initialized to #\' If I want to change it to #\" via local binding I still get the single quotes in the resulting string. (let ((*attribute-quote-char* #\")) (with-html-output-to-string (*standard-output* nil :prologue nil :indent nil) (:html (:head (:title "title") (:meta :name "DESCRIPTION" :content "description") (:meta :name "KEYWORDS" :content "keywords"))))) I get: "<html><head><title>title</title><meta name='DESCRIPTION' content='description' /><meta name='KEYWORDS' content='keywords' /></head></html>" Is it possible to make a local new binding or I should change it only globally? Thank you, Andrew

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[cl-who-devel] Macro expansion...
by Andrei Stebakov 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

I am trying to incorporate parenscript into cl-who tree. I tried to insert a small macro but for some reasons I get various errors linke "cl-who:fmt not defined" or ":script not defined". I guess I need help to figure out the way macros work with cl-who... (defmacro js-body (&rest body) `(:script :type "text/javascript" (fmt (ps ,@body)))) (with-html-output-to-string (*standard-output* nil :prologue nil :indent nil) (:html (:head (:title "Some title")) (js-body (defun some-func () (alert "Hello!"))))) I think parenscript is not really relevant to the task, so I am looking for some help to figure out why I have these expansion errors. BTW, when I run (macroexpand '(with-html-output-to-string (*standard-output* nil :prologue nil :indent nil) (:html (:head (:title "Some title")) (js-body (defun some-func () (alert "Hello!")))))) I get: (LET ((*STANDARD-OUTPUT* (MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM :ELEMENT-TYPE 'CHARACTER))) (UNWIND-PROTECT (PROGN (WITH-HTML-OUTPUT (*STANDARD-OUTPUT* NIL :PROLOGUE NIL :INDENT NIL) (:HTML (:HEAD (:TITLE "Some title")) (JS-BODY (DEFUN SOME-FUNC () (ALERT "Hello!")))))) (CLOSE *STANDARD-OUTPUT*)) (GET-OUTPUT-STREAM-STRING *STANDARD-OUTPUT*)) The HyperSpec says: "*macroexpand* <#macroexpand> repeatedly expands *form*until it is no longer a *macro form"* <26_glo_m.htm#macro_form> Why js-body or with-html-output doesn't get expanded in this case? I am using sbcl 1.0.18 on Ubuntu. Thank you! Andrew

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[cl-who-devel] with-html-output-to-string (str)
by Victor Kryukov 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

The following code produces errors on two of my systems (Linux and Mac) for both CLISP and SBCL: (require 'asdf) (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :cl-who) (defpackage :test (:use :cl :cl-who)) (in-package :test) (with-html-output-to-string (str) (:html (:title "test"))) It looks like a bug, macro variable capture, to me, but it may well be my misunderstanding/misuse of CL-WHO. I'd appreciate your comments, as usual. -- Yours Sincerely, Victor Kryukov

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[cl-who-devel] Generating HTML using the result of a function call
by Taylor Venable 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hello, I've been trying to figure out how to do something in CL-WHO and haven't been able to get it yet, so I thought perhaps somebody on here might be able to help me out. I'm working on an RSS / blog component on my website which is written in Lisp (running on top of Hunchentoot, specifically). Each entry in the blog consists of a file located in a hierarchy that composes a date: e.g. /blog/2008/05/02 for the entry of May 2nd, 2008. Each entry file is a Lisp file with the following structure: ((title . "The Title Goes Here") (description . "This is what gets shown in the RSS feed.") (body . (:div :id "content" (:p "This is the first paragraph in the entry.") (:p "Here's another paragraph with " (:a :href "/foo" "a link") " inside of it.")))) My goal is to use the Lisp reader to read the list into a variable, let's call it "content", and to pull out of "content" the things that I need to render. With RSS this was possible by using something like: (cl-who:with-html-output (output) (:item (:title (cl-who:str (cdr (assoc :title content)))) (:description (cl-who:str (cdr (assoc :description content)))))) But I also want to render HTML pages constructed from the "body" part of the entry, something that would work like: (with-open-file (input (site-file path)) (let ((content (read input))) (cl-who:with-html-output (output) (cdr (assoc :body content))))) But evaluate (cdr (assoc :body content)) and use the result [in this case it would turn into the HTML template code that I wanted] rather than doing what seems to be the default behaviour of evaluating the expression but then outputting nothing. Is this possible with CL-WHO at this time? If not, would it be difficult to add such feature in a manner similar to how CL-WHO:STR and CL-WHO:HTM work? Thanks for any help or ideas. I'm using version 0.11.1 running under SBCL 1.0.11 on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.04.1 -- Taylor Venable http://real.metasyntax.net:2357/ foldr = lambda f, i, l: (len(l) == 1 and [f(l[0], i)] or [f(l[0], foldr(f, i, l[1:]))])[0]

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[cl-who-devel] Macroexpansion of with-html-output body? (follow-up)
by Vsevolod 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hi, Once again (hopefully, for the last time) I want to address the question "to use or not to use", so to say, macroexpansion inside w-h-o form, and moreover, how to do it right. I have experimented with the previously proposed solution of introducing additional EMB keyword and have found, that it as well has some drawbacks. More precisely, they exist because of the nature of the w-h-o macro itself, which uses special processing for the forms, contained inside HTM: they are processed before any function application, that is why if you EMBed some macros, which use HTM keyword, which should output to their own streams, the result can be emitted in the unexpected order. To illustrate this vague statement, I can show the piece of the code, that combines cl-who and parenscript forms to make a currency selection form with some javascript backing: (defmacro cur-sel () (w/uniqs (cur) (let ((sel-str `(:select :id "currency" (dolist (,cur *currencies*) (htm (:option :selected (string= ,cur *default-currency*) (str ,cur))))))) `(htm (emb (ps-script* (write-htm (:a :class "toggle" :onclick (ps-inline* `(lambda () ,(write-htm ,sel-str))) (str (ie-val *default-currency*)))))) (:noscript ,sel-str))))) (defmacro write-htm (form) ``(.write document ,(who ,form))) The macro CUR-SEL, that is intended to itself be EMBedded, uses WRITE-HTM to emit HTML forms to string, that will in turn be an argument to javascript document.write(). But, as after macroexpansion of sel-str HTM forms appear as arguments to WRITE-HTM, the output of the containing w-h-o forms goes to the stream, bound by the topmost w-h-o and not the innermost, as it's supposed... Anyway, after some re-thinking of a problem, I've come to a conclusion, that my approach was not the most natural one. Now, I believe, that the more lispy way is to view w-h-o macro as solely a good processor for static pseudo-html data (like '(:p some text (:br) (:a :href ....), and on top of it build macros, which will allow eventually to add macroexpansion ability. My initial target was to be able to use macros with pseudo-html forms, like in the following simple example: (def-who-macro (arg) `(:p some text (:br) (:a :href ,arg))) inside w-h-o body the same way you would use an ordinary macro, but I'd got carried away with modifying the w-h-o macro itself to allow for such usage. It turned out, that it's not hard to implement the separated approach. My variant is below: (defmacro def-who-macro (name (&rest args) pseudo-html-form) "Produces functions for generating pseudo-html forms, which can be embedded in WHO-PAGEs" `(defun ,name (,@args) ,pseudo-html-form)) (defmacro def-who-page (name (&optional stream) pseudo-html-form) "Creates a function to generate an HTML page with the use of WITH-HTML-OUTPUT macro, in which pseudo-html forms, constructed with DEF-WHO-MACRO, can be embedded. If STREAM is nil/not supplied WITH-HTML-OUTPUT-TO-STRING to a throwaway string will be used, otherwise -- WITH-HTML-OUTPUT" `(macrolet ((who-tmp () `(,@',(if stream `(with-html-output (,stream nil :prologue t)) `(with-html-output-to-string (,(gensym) nil :prologue t))) ,,pseudo-html-form))) (defun ,name () (who-tmp)))) (defmacro who (pseudo-html-form) "An analog of DEF-WHO-PAGE, which not only creates an w-h-o pseudo-HTML to HTML translation function, but as well runs it and emits the obtained HTML as a string" `(macrolet ((who-tmp () `(with-html-output-to-string (,(gensym)) ,,pseudo-html-form))) (who-tmp))) And the example usage can be: (def-who-macro ps-script (&body body) `(:script :type "text/javascript" (fmt "~%// <![CDATA[~%") (str (js:ps ,@body)) (fmt "~%// ]]>~%"))) (def-who-page demo-page () `(:html (:head ,(:ps-script (defun hi () (alert "Hello world!")))) (:body (:input :type "button" :value "Click here...")))) The only catch is that DEF-WHO-MACRO actually generates not a macro in Lisp terms, but a function, which constructs lists of pseudo-HTML forms. I hope, the given code will be useful. Best regards, Vsevolod Dyomkin

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[cl-who-devel] Strange (str ...) behavior.
by Stas Boukarev 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

I have the following with cl-who-0.11.1: > (with-html-output-to-string (i) (:div :id (str "foo"))) "<divfoo id='foo'></div>" -- With Best Regards, Stas.

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[cl-who-devel] Macroexpansion of with-html-output body?
by Vsevolod 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

I have experimented with the solution, that I've sent previously and have found out, that it's better to place the macroexpansion part in the TREE-TO-TEMPLATE function (instead of TREE-TO-COMMANDS). Thus it's possible to support nested EMB's. The diff looks like this: @@ -11,12 +11,10 @@ ;; normal tag (process-tag element #'tree-to-template)) ((listp element) - ;; most likely a normal Lisp form (check if we - ;; have nested HTM subtrees) or an EMB form + ;; most likely a normal Lisp form - check if we + ;; have nested HTM subtrees (list - (if (eql (car element) 'emb) - (replace-htm (list 'htm (macroexpand-1 (cadr element))) #'tree-to-template) - (replace-htm element #'tree-to-template)))) + (replace-htm element #'tree-to-template))) (t (if *indent* (list +newline+ (n-spaces *indent*) element) - Vsevolod

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[cl-who-devel] Macroexpansion of with-html-output body?
by Vsevolod 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Below is the message I've sent today to Edi Weitz on this topic. Unfortunately, I've missed the existence of this mailing-list, that's why I didn't consult the archives. Today I have quickly pierced the discussion and, as far as I've seen, the solution, I propose, hadn't being mentioned. So, I suggest an implementation strategy for the macroexpansion inside with-html-output and provide a patch against the current version (0.11.1)... I tried to use CL-WHO a couple of times in the past and always stumbled over the fact, that it's possible to do something like that (example from the site): (with-html-output (*http-stream*) (:table :border 0 :cellpadding 4 (loop for i below 25 by 5 do (htm (:tr :align "right" (loop for j from i below (+ i 5) do (htm (:td :bgcolor (if (oddp j) "pink" "green") (fmt "~@R" (1+ j)))))))))) ...but not something like this (i.e. make a macro, to compress some of the pseudo-html tree): (with-html-output (*http-stream*) (:table :border 0 :cellpadding 4 (loop for i below 25 by 5 do (htm (:tr :align "right" (loop for j from i below (+ i 5) do (htm (embed-td j)))))))) (defmacro embed-td (j) `(:td :bgcolor (if (oddp ,j) "pink" "green") (fmt "~@R" (1+ ,j)))) Thus to write such a macro for with-htm-output you should do it in two steps (at least, this is the only way I have discovered): The original form should be like the following (with STR): (with-html-output (*http-stream*) (:table :border 0 :cellpadding 4 (loop for i below 25 by 5 do (htm (:tr :align "right" (loop for j from i below (+ i 5) do (STR (embed-td j)))))))) ...and the macro should itself use w-h-o-to-string: (defmacro embed-td (j) (let ((str (gensym))) `(with-html-output-to-string (,str) (:td :bgcolor (if (oddp ,j) "pink" "green") (fmt "~@R" (1+ ,j)))))) I think it's quite a common case in the usage of the w-h-o macro to want such macros (at least for me it always comes up). So I suggest to add another keyword to a list of STR, ESC and HTM -- EMB -- specially for such cases, which will mean "macroexpand-1 the enclosed form". With it the above code may be expressed like: (with-html-output (*http-stream*) (:table :border 0 :cellpadding 4 (loop for i below 25 by 5 do (htm (:tr :align "right" (loop for j from i below (+ i 5) do (htm (emb (embed-td j))))))))) (defmacro embed-td (j) `(:td :bgcolor (if (oddp ,j) "pink" "green") (fmt "~@R" (1+ ,j)))) or like this: (with-html-output (*http-stream*) (:table :border 0 :cellpadding 4 (loop for i below 25 by 5 do (htm (:tr :align "right" (emb (embed-tr i))))))) (defmacro embed-tr (i) (let ((j (gensym))) `(loop for ,j from ,i below (+ ,i 5) do (htm (:td :bgcolor (if (oddp ,j) "pink" "green") (fmt "~@R" (1+ ,j)))))) I think, sometimes such flexibility is necessary. Although, I'm not absolutely sure, that the solution, I've hacked, is flawless... The patch is attached. I tried to follow the guidelines for patches with this one. The only thing, that I didn't do, is provide examples of the usage of EMB keyword in the doc (only a brief reference). I think, that the examples in the letter might suit, but I'm not sure. Best regards, Vsevolod Dyomkin

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[cl-who-devel] When tagname/attributes can be determined only at runtime (WITH-HTML-TAG)
by Chaitanya Gupta 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hi, While using CL-WHO recently, I ran into a small problem wherein some tagnames/attributes could be determined only at runtime. Not knowing any easy way to do this "out of the box" in CL-WHO, I wrote this small macro (inspired by XML-EMITTER:WITH-TAG) - (defmacro with-html-tag ((name &optional attributes) &body body) (let ((body-fn (gensym))) `(flet ((,body-fn () ,@body)) (call-with-html-tag ,name ,attributes #',body-fn)))) (defun call-with-html-tag (name attributes body-fn) (let ((tag-name (typecase name (symbol (string-downcase name)) (t name)))) (format t "<~A" tag-name) (when attributes (format t "~{~A~}" (cl-who:convert-attributes attributes))) (format t ">") (funcall body-fn) (format t "</~A>" tag-name))) Note that it writes only to *standard-output*. Usage ----- (defvar *x* :blockquote) => *X* (with-output-to-string (*standard-output*) (cl-who:with-html-output (*standard-output*) (:body (with-html-tag (*x*) (cl-who:htm (:p "foo bar")))))) => "<body><blockquote><p>foo bar</p></blockquote></body>" (with-output-to-string (*standard-output*) (cl-who:with-html-output (*standard-output*) (:body (with-html-tag (*x* '(("id" . "foo123"))) (cl-who:htm (:p "foo bar")))))) => "<body><blockquote id='foo123'><p>foo bar</p></blockquote></body>" I think this will be a useful addition to CL-WHO (although this particular implementation can be improved a bit). Or did I miss out on some other way that CL-WHO can easily handle this? Chaitanya

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