Common Lisp guys have their CL-WHO, which makes HTML templating integrated with the \"main\" language thus making the task easier. For those who don\'t know CL-WHO, it looks
Perl's standard CGI module can do something similar:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print
start_html("An example"),
h1(
{
-align => "left",
-class => "headerinfo",
},
'this is an example'
),
"The CGI module has functions that add HTML:",
ul( map li($_),
("start_html",
"h1, h2, h3, etc.",
"ol, ul, li",
"ol, ul, li",
"table, tr, th, td")
),
"and many more.",
end_html();
That produces:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>An example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>
<h1 class="headerinfo" align="left">this is an example</h1>The CGI module has functions that add HTML:<ul><li>start_html</li> <li>h1, h2, h3, etc.</li> <li>ol, ul, li</li> <li>ol, ul, li</li> <li>table, tr, th, td</li></ul>and many more.
</body>
</html>
The li section could be rewritten like this
print ol(map li($_), @list);
if you had a list or an array.
Perl's CGI module has support for something like this.
use CGI ':standard';
use Lisp::Fmt
print header();
print table( { -border => 1, -cellpading => 4},
loop({ below => 25, by=> 5}, sub {
my $i = shift;
tr( {-align => 'right'} ,
loop({ from => $i, below $i + 5}, sub {
my $j = shift;
td({-bgcolor => ($oddp eq $j ? 'pink' : 'green')}
fmt("~@R", 1+$j);
})
)
});
I tried to keep it lispy, so you'll have to implement a lispy loop
function yourself. I don't really program Common List, so I hope I understood your code correctly.
There are a bunch of CL-WHO-inspired HTML-generating libraries available in Clojure (as one would expect, Clojure being a Lisp). Here's how you could do it using the HTML library that comes with Compojure, and cl-format:
(use 'compojure.html
'com.infolace.format)
(html
[:table {:border 0 :cellpadding 4}
(map (fn [tds] [:tr {:align "right"} tds])
(partition 5 (map (fn [num color]
[:td {:bgcolor color}
(cl-format nil "~@R" (inc num))])
(range 25)
(cycle ["green" "pink"]))))])
Compojure's HTML library makes good use of Clojure's literal hash-maps as attribute/value pairs, and using literal vectors for tags instead of lists for everything helps the tags stand out a bit and avoids some of the need for macro magic.
partition
breaks up a collection into groups of some number of elements. cycle
generates an infinitely repeating list of the elements of a collection. These plus range
and map
help you avoid explicit loops and counter variables.
There's html-tags, a Chicken Scheme extension. html-tags generates either [X]HTML or SXML.
Here's an example (using the loop extension and considering string output):
(<table> border: 0 cellpadding: 4
(string-intersperse
(loop for i below 25 by 5
collect
(<tr> align: "right"
(string-intersperse
(loop for j from i below (+ i 5)
collect
(<td> bgcolor: (if (odd? j)
"pink"
"green")
(+ 1 j))))))))
I'd add links to the loop and html-utils extensions (which is built on top of html-tags), but stackoverflow is considering I'm a spammer and only allows me to post a maximum of two links.
For CPAN offerings have a look at the following (in alphabetical order)...
Using the table part of the CL-WHO example provided (minus Roman numerals and s/background-color/color/ to squeeze code into screen width here!)....
use Builder;
my $builder = Builder->new;
my $h = $builder->block( 'Builder::XML' );
$h->table( { border => 0, cellpadding => 4 }, sub {
for ( my $i = 1; $i < 25; $i += 5 ) {
$h->tr( { align => 'right' }, sub {
for my $j (0..4) {
$h->td( { color => $j % 2 ? 'pink' : 'green' }, $i + $j );
}
});
}
});
say $builder->render;
use HTML::AsSubs;
my $td = sub {
my $i = shift;
return map {
td( { color => $_ % 2 ? 'pink' : 'green' }, $i + $_ )
} 0..4;
};
say table( { border => 0, cellpadding => 4 },
map {
&tr( { align => 'right' }, $td->( $_ ) )
} loop( below => 25, by => 5 )
)->as_HTML;
use HTML::Tiny;
my $h = HTML::Tiny->new;
my $td = sub {
my $i = shift;
return map {
$h->td( { 'color' => $_ % 2 ? 'pink' : 'green' }, $i + $_ )
} 0..4;
};
say $h->table(
{ border => 0, cellpadding => 4 },
[
map {
$h->tr( { align => 'right' }, [ $td->( $_ ) ] )
} loop( below => 25, by => 5 )
]
);
use Markapl;
template 'MyTable' => sub {
table ( border => 0, cellpadding => 4 ) {
for ( my $i = 1; $i < 25; $i += 5 ) {
row ( align => 'right' ) {
for my $j ( 0.. 4 ) {
td ( color => $j % 2 ? 'pink' : 'green' ) { $i + $j }
}
}
}
}
};
print main->render( 'MyTable' );
package MyTemplates;
use Template::Declare::Tags;
use base 'Template::Declare';
template 'MyTable' => sub {
table {
attr { border => 0, cellpadding => 4 };
for ( my $i = 1; $i < 25; $i += 5 ) {
row {
attr { align => 'right' };
for my $j ( 0..4 ) {
cell {
attr { color => $j % 2 ? 'pink' : 'green' }
outs $i + $j;
}
}
}
}
}
};
package main;
use Template::Declare;
Template::Declare->init( roots => ['MyTemplates'] );
print Template::Declare->show( 'MyTable' );
use XML::Generator;
my $x = XML::Generator->new( pretty => 2 );
my $td = sub {
my $i = shift;
return map {
$x->td( { 'color' => $_ % 2 ? 'pink' : 'green' }, $i + $_ )
} 0..4;
};
say $x->table(
{ border => 0, cellpadding => 4 },
map {
$x->tr( { align => 'right' }, $td->( $_ ) )
} loop( below => 25, by => 5 )
);
And the following can be used to produce the "loop" in HTML::AsSubs / HTML::Tiny / XML::Generator examples....
sub loop {
my ( %p ) = @_;
my @list;
for ( my $i = $p{start} || 1; $i < $p{below}; $i += $p{by} ) {
push @list, $i;
}
return @list;
}
Haskell has an HTML combinator library that is not all that different from CL-WHO. The lazy functional approach to programming, though, does result in a much different idiomatic iteration structure than the loop facilities in Common Lisp:
import Data.Char
import Data.List
import Text.Html
-- from http://fawcett.blogspot.com/2007/08/roman-numerals-in-haskell.html
import RomanNumerals
-- Simple roman numeral conversion; returns "" if it cannot convert.
rom :: Int -> String
rom r = let m = toRoman r
in (map toUpper . maybe "" id) m
-- Group a list N elements at a time.
-- groupN 2 [1,2,3,4,5] == [[1,2],[3,4],[5]]
groupN n [] = []
groupN n xs = let (a, b) = splitAt n xs in a : (groupN n b)
pink = "pink" -- for convenience below; green is already covered by Text.Html
rom_table = table ! [border 0, cellpadding 4] << trs
where
-- a list of <tr> entries
trs = map (rom_tr . map rom_td) rom_array
-- generates a <tr> from a list of <td>s
rom_tr tds = tr ! [align "right"] << tds
-- generates a <td> given a numeral and a color
rom_td (r, c) = td ! [bgcolor c] << r
-- our 5 x 5 array (list x list) of numerals and colors
rom_array = (groupN 5 . take 25) rom_colors
-- a theoretically infinite list of pairs of roman numerals and colors
-- (practically, though, the roman numeral library has limits!)
rom_colors = zip (map rom [1..]) colors
-- an infinite list of alternating green and pink colors
colors = cycle [green, pink]
main = let s = prettyHtml rom_table
in putStrLn s
I should note there's also a little combinator library in Text.Html for composing tables using "above" and "beside" operators to calculate row/column spanning, but it's a little too simplistic in terms of applying attributes to duplicate this example exactly, and we don't need the fancy splitting of rows and columns.