Hey John, I noticed that your code is using the Syck library for Yaml. How were you able to get it to deal with Unicode characters? I just wrote a new yaml library based on libyaml if you want to give it a shot (yaml on hackage). It doesn't support aliases, but is otherwise feature complete.
Michael On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:12 PM, John MacFarlane <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. I'll put a note to this effect in the README. > > John > > +++ Jinjing Wang [Aug 03 09 18:17 ]: > > It's possible to serve the generated site with maid, in case apache is > > not available: > > > > cabal update > > cabal install maid > > > > yst create testsite > > cd testsite > > yst > > > > cd site > > maid > > > > now goto http://localhost:3000/ > > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:05 AM, John MacFarlane<[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm pleased to announce the release of yst, now available on HackageDB. > > > yst generates static websites from YAML or CSV data files and > > > StringTemplates. This approach combines the speed, security, and ease > of > > > deployment of a static website with the flexibility and maintainability > > > of a dynamic site that separates presentation and data. > > > > > > The easiest way to get a feel for yst is to try it: > > > > > > cabal update > > > cabal install yst > > > yst create testsite > > > cd testsite > > > yst > > > > > > yst attempts to fill a niche between two kinds of site creation tools. > > > On the one hand you have simple static site generators like webgen, > > > webby, nanoc, and my old custom system using make and pandoc. On the > > > other hand, you have dynamic web frameworks like rails and django. > > > For my own smallish websites, I found that the dynamic frameworks were > > > overkill. Nobody but me was going to edit the pages, and I didn't > > > want the trouble of writing and deploying a dynamic site, setting up > > > a web server, and administering a database. A static site would be > > > faster, easier to deploy, and more secure. But the dynamic frameworks > > > offered one thing that the static site generators did not: an easy way > > > to separate data from presentation. This was becoming increasingly > > > important to me as I found myself constantly updating the same > > > information (say, publication data for a paper) in multiple places > (say, > > > a LaTeX CV and a differently formatted web listing of papers). > > > > > > What I wanted was a site generation tool that used YAML text files > > > as a database and allowed different kinds of documents to be produced > > > from the same data. I couldn't find anything that did just what I > > > wanted, so I wrote yst. By way of illustration, here are the build > > > instructions for HTML and LaTeX versions of a CV, plus a web page with > a > > > list of papers: > > > > > > - url: cv.html > > > title: CV > > > template: cv.st > > > data_common: &cvdata > > > contact: from contact.yaml > > > jobsbyemployer: from jobs.yaml order by start group by employer > > > degrees: from degrees.yaml order by year desc > > > awards: from awards.yaml order by year desc group by title > > > papers: from papers.yaml order by year desc where (not (type = > 'review')) > > > reviews: from papers.yaml order by year desc where type = 'review' > > > talks: from talks.yaml where date < '2009-09-01' order by date desc > group by title > > > dissertations: from dissertations.yaml order by role then year group > by role > > > theses: from theses.yaml order by year then student > > > courses: from courses.yaml order by number group by title > > > data: > > > <<: *cvdata > > > html: yes > > > > > > - url: cv.tex > > > title: CV > > > inmenu: no > > > template: cv.st > > > layout: layout.tex.st > > > data: > > > <<: *cvdata > > > html: yes > > > > > > - url: papers.html > > > title: Papers > > > template: papers.st > > > data: > > > papersbyyear: from papers.yaml order by year desc then title group > by year > > > > > > yst's query language is limited, and there are lots of things you can > > > do with a full-fledged database that you can't do with yst. But yst > > > is ideal, I think, for small to medium data-driven sites that are > > > maintained by a single person who likes working with plain text. It > > > scratched my itch, anyway, and I release it in case anyone else has the > > > same itch. > > > > > > Code, documentation, and bug reports: > http://github.com/jgm/yst/tree/master > > > > > > John > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > jinjing > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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