Just wanted to ping the list and let everyone know a more mature of version
of xml-literals is available to install if anyone is interested in checking
it out. I sent out my work to the Node list more than a year ago, but
didn't bother making it too accessible to the greater community. C++ and
boost were required and it wasn't even in npm so it was pretty hard to work
with, but that's no longer true! In that time I've been using xml-literals
in my own project working out bugs as I found them.
Basically xml-literals gives you a safe and easy way to generate XML (or
HTML) documents. For example:
var name = uri.query.name;
var greeting = <p>Hello, {name}. Good to meet you.</p>;
response.write(greeting.toString());
XML literals can span multiple lines and you can insert arbitrary data via
JS expressions in {}'s.
If you're familiar with E4X (put down your pitchforks!) you could consider
it "E4X: The Good Parts". Or if you've heard of Facebook's XHP you could
consider it XHP for JS.
Advantages:
- Context-sensitive escaping, no XSS
- Easy to write, directly represents what will be sent to the browser, no
quotes and +'s required
- Functional decomposition is a breeze with document fragments and DOM
manipulation (appendChild, insertBefore, etc)
- Can be applied to client-side JS, directly creating DOM nodes
Disadvantages:
- "Not Javascript"
- Relies on code transformation
- Your text editor might freak out (vim does fine unless you use quotes or
apostrophes in raw html)
A full example w/ http server can be found here:
https://raw.github.com/laverdet/js-xml-literal/master/example/main.js
Install with:
npm install xml-literals
github:
https://github.com/laverdet/js-xml-literal
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