Re: spiffy patch attempt (was Re: [Chicken-users] Minor issue with spiffy's sxml->html)

[Peter Wright]

On 31/12 16:03:01, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Wright scripsit:
> > Hence my following attempt at a patch for the latest spiffy-base.scm
> > which also incorporates (steals? :)) the sxml-transforms special
> > handling for (a) inline tags, and (b) certain tags when they're empty.
> 
> A suggestion for all this introduction of newlines:  instead of
> adding newlines after end-tags

Before start-tags, not after end-tags.

> and worrying about which ones can and cannot have a problem with it,
> why not add a newline *within* the end-tag, thus:  "</b\n>"?  That's
> a general solution and simplifies the problem greatly.

That's actually quite an interesting (== weird :)) idea, but I suspect
the resultant HTML would look a bit too strange/unreadable. Another
approach could be to not generate newlines at all, but that'd also end
up being overly difficult to read (for humans).

The sxml-transforms approach isn't too complicated, but (I think)
strikes the right balance between generating human-readable HTML and
generating HTML that's a "correct" representation of the SXML.


Pete.
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