Enlive N(ext)

Enlive N(ext)

Notes on the direction of Enlive. This is not a road map.

• First-order transformations
• Removes distinction between templates and snippets
  • Need to define a new seq type and a as-nodes function
  • Seq support is nearly mandatory for Ring
    • Or explicit call to a serialization fn?
  • snippets sub selection through :only option
• New execution model for templates:
  • parallel execution of selectors
  • node selectors as a special case of fragment selectors
  • as soon as a selectors match, the matching fragment is plucked out (and saved with the state-machine state)
    • the remaining tree can be partially serialized
• More options
  • parser, encoding, http client, serializer...
  • standard way to specify them
• move away from TagSoup (better html 5 support)
• new state machine (shared with regex)
• static CSS-in-string selectors
  • no dynamic support
    • dynamic only through [:traditional :selectors]
• hiccup-like helper
• new macro to replace template/snippet
  • ternary rhythm (selector op data)
  • extensible (net.cgrand.xmacros)
  • paves the way for Clojurescript

Sample

(deftemplate name resource 
  docstring? 
  :opt1 XXX :opt2 YYY
  ([args]
    sel1 op1 data1
    sel2 op2 data2)
  other arities)