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Symbolic Expressions As Markup.

Why

Because all markup is terrible, especially XML/SGML and derivatives.

But mainly, for easier static markup code generation, such as with macros, code includes and such.

Try it out

Mainly this should be used as a library, such as from within a server, generating HTML (or any other supported markup) before it is served to the client.

Current Formats

• XML
• HTML
• CSS

TODO

• Caching or checking time-stamps as to not regenerate unmodified source files.
• HTML object style="..." object should handle s-expressions well, (e.g. (p :style (:color red :border none) Hello World))
• HTML <style> tag should allow for normal CSS syntax if just given a string.
• Allow for, and handle special @ syntax in CSS, such as @import and @media.
• Add more supported formats (JSON, JS, TOML, &c.).
• Add more helpful/generic macros (e.g. (%include ...), which already exists).
• Add user defined macros system (e.g. (%define (red-para txt) (p :style "color: red" %txt)))
• Then add variadic macros.
• Allow for arbitrary embedding of code, that can be run by a LISP interpreter (or any other langauge), for example. (e.g. (%chez (+ 1 2)) executes (+ 1 2) with Chez-Scheme LISP, and places the result in the source (i.e. 3).

Using The Binary

(Providing you have cloned this repo, and cd'd into it)

cargo run test.sex --html > test.html

test.sex contains your symbolic-expressions, which is used to generate HTML, saved in test.html.