
HStringTemplate is a general purpose templating system, geared especially towards HTML and based on Terrence Parr’s Java library. On Hackage at: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/ package/HStringTemplate-0.2 Development version at: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/ HStringTemplate/ Haddocks at: http://code.haskell.org/HStringTemplate/dist/doc/html/ HStringTemplate/Text-StringTemplate.html Additional documentation on the grammar at: http://www.antlr.org/wiki/ display/ST/StringTemplate+3.1+Documentation as well as in some posts at http://fmapfixreturn.wordpress.com Lots of cleanup, lots of additions, hopefully this is an extremely usable release. Still no group or interface files, but I suspect that those are mainly useful for code-generation, which seems like something Haskell programmers would want to use something other than a templating system for in any case. On to the good stuff: * Now on hackage! * Generics. Not one but two types. One set of simple bindings for the standard Data class, and one for syb-with-class. (Alex Drummond’s RJson library, which is really cool, was very helpful in figuring out how to do this). * A withContext method that turns any set of name-value bindings into the context for a StringTemplate. Along with the syb-with-class bindings, this should make for relatively seamless interoperability with HAppS. * Lots of other additional bindings for working with standard time formats, numeric types, etc. * Encoders. A standard mechanism for HTML-escaping strings (or javascript-escaping, or urlencoding them, or etc.) that A) ensures it happens uniformly and B) ensures it happens no more than once. * Improved pretty printing support, eliminating corner-cases where wrapping did not occur. * Creation of directory groups is now done properly in the IO monad, with caching functionality moved to the scarily-named unsafeVolatileDirectoryGroup. * 80% Top-Level testing coverage in the base. (And more to come, but I only have so much time). And of course, patches and feedback always welcome. --Sterl