HTML writer

[Moosebumps]

Thanks to all for the feedback -- that was very useful!  I think I will go
with XIST.

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"Tuure Laurinolli" <tuure at laurinolli.net> wrote in message
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> Moosebumps wrote:
>
> > That is, I would not like any specific HTML tags anywhere in my own
code,
> > and it seems like that is what they will allow me to do.  But I would be
> > interested to hear opinions/experiences with these packages.
>
> I spent a couple of days last week getting to know each of these. I
> found HTMLgen as I was getting desperate with the tag soup in my code
> and quickly converted the code to use it. Then I found out it only does
> HTML 3.2, missing end tags of elements and such. Some parts of the model
> also weren't as generic as they should have been.
>
> Next I stumbled upon HyperText, which seemed to fix all the
> incosistencies of HTMLgen, and also output XHTML 1.0. THe problem was
> that I found no way to use web forms with it. The 'name'-attribute of an
> input tag seemed to be impossible to set(ie. foo.name didn't do the
> right thing, foo['name'] was illegal and there weren't any obvious false
> names like klass <-> class). Fixing this would have been easy, but I
> decided to look for alternatives.
>
> The final option seemed to be XIST, of which HTML seems to be only small
> part. It seems to implement HTML in a consistent fashion, allowing all
> the necessary tag attributes to be set and otherwise providing a nice
> interface to the horrible world of web :)
>
> -- Tuure Laurinolli