Re: Website implementation

[Luis Felipe López Acevedo]

On 2015-03-07 17:01, David Thompson wrote:
> Luis Felipe López Acevedo <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Regarding the Guilish tool(s) to generate the site statically, I have
> > these to compare
> >
> >      - Artanis <http://www.gnu.org/s/artanis/> (GNU Project)
>
> Artanis is intended for dynamic web applications, so I don't think it
> would be particularly useful in this instance.

I thought that its template mechanism could be used independently as I 
use Django's to generate my blog statically...

[...]


> >      - tylan's html simple <https://gitorious.org/taylan-guile/html/>
>
> I also have an SXML -> HTML converter in guix-web. [0]
>
> > I still need to get familiar with the fundamentals of Scheme/Guile to
> > decide what tool to use. Personally, I'd like to find a way to write
> > HTML templates and let a program build the final site. Template 
> > context
> > and inheritance would be nice to have. Maybe this can be done with
> > Artanis' template system?
>
> Lisps have built-in templating via quasiqoute, so you can do any
> transformations you'd like on the resulting s-expression.  SXML is a
> popular way of writing XML/HTML templates in Lisp.  See guix-web for
> examples. [1]
>
> Does this help or have I just muddied the waters even more?

The Guile world is a completely new world for me, but I'll check 
guix-web to see how templating works.

thanks.


> [0] https://gitorious.org/guix-web/guix-web/source/guix/web/sxml.scm
> [1] 
> https://gitorious.org/guix-web/guix-web/source/guix/web/view/html.scm#L74
>
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