Re: [Chicken-users] Newbie HTML-form questions

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:21:31AM +0100, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> (I'm sending a couple of questions, each unrelated question in a 
> separate email. I hope it is right).
> 
> Again some newbie questions regarding Chcken and HTML/HTTP:
> 
> * using html-form and http-server, how do I conveinently build a simple 
> login HTML form (with the usual two fields username and password). I e 
> what is the code that I can call from a http:add-resource
> 
> Apparently html-form gives a structured HTML form, not a string which I 
> could display; And I'm looking for the function to output it on 
> (current-output).

I don't know html-form, but its documentation says that it outputs SXML.
You can output SXML using the sxml-transforms egg.

You can use either the specific

(SXML->HTML <your form>)

or the more generic

(SRV:send-reply (pre-post-order <your form> universal-conversion-rules))

For more info about SXML, see the references on the sxml-transforms
wiki page.

Cheers,
Peter
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