Fantastic news! This may call for an update to http://hiccup.space
On Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 1:17:24 PM UTC+11, James Reeves wrote: > > I'd like to tentatively announce the first alpha version of Hiccup 2.0.0. > > This release introduces automatically escaping of strings, which has been > a frequently requested feature. Hiccup 1.0 had no way of distinguishing > between a string of text and a fragment of HTML, so for version 2.0 a new > type has been introduced to represent the latter. > > A lot of projects depend upon Hiccup, and after thinking about it for a > while, and watching Rich's Spec-ulation > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk> talk, I decided to > introduce a new namespace rather than break backward compatibility. So > although Hiccup 2.0.0 is a major version change, it should be backward > compatible with version 1.0. > > The new namespace is hiccup2.core, and it works like this: > > (require '[hiccup2.core :refer [html raw]]) > > (str (html [:span "one < two"])) > ;=> "<span>one < two</span>" > > Notice that now strings are escaped by default, but we also need to > explicitly convert the HTML fragment into a string by using > clojure.core/str. > > By using a compiled intermediate format, we gain a lot more potential > flexibility. For example, possible future feature currently under > consideration is to support different ways of formatting the HTML. Using an > intermediate format allows us to do this after pre-compilation has taken > place. > > Because this is an alpha release, the hiccup2.core namespace is not set in > stone, but it does seem to be the simplest solution to the problem of > incompatibility. Suggestions for better ways to solve this are welcome and > encouraged. > > As well as escaping strings, additional syntax sugar for attributes has > been introduced. This should be familiar to anyone using Reagent: > > (str (html [:span {:class ["foo" "bar"]} "example"])) > ;=> "<span class=\"foo bar\">example</span>" > > (str (html [:span {:style {:color "red"}} "example"])) > ;=> "<span style=\"color:red;\">example</span>" > > Please give the alpha release a spin, and if there are any > incompatibilities please let me know. > > - James > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
