I had some time yesterday and decided to port the cl-markup package to emacs lisp.
What I came up with I called `markup.el`.
You can check out the code on GitHub. Now you can easily generate HTML or XML from emacs lisp.
The easiest thing you can do is generate simple tags.
(markup (:p "This is a simple example")) ;; => "<p>This is a simple example</p>"
But you can easily create a full html5 document aswell:
(markup-html5
(:div :style "border: 1px solid #000"
"Some content of the div!"))
;; => "<!DOCTYPE html><html><div style=\"border: 1px solid #000\">Some content of the div!</div></html>"
You can even mix in some other expressions or variables:
(let ((maximum 5))
(markup-html5
(:body
(:ul
(loop for x from 1 to maximum
collect
(markup (:li x " / " maximum)))))))
;; => "<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><ul><li>1 / 5</li><li>2 / 5</li><li>3 / 5</li><li>4 / 5</li><li>5 / 5</li></ul></body></html>"
This is my first step towards an emacs lisp static website generator. The next step will be to extract the meta information from org files and integrate their content into layouts that have been described in markup.el compatible files.