Friday, October 16, 2009

on-line Curl documentation for 'the gradual curve' and 'the gentle slope' for non-HTML, non-XHTML web content markup

I thought I would toss out the web link to the on-line Curl docs since I am looking at Curl these days most often as web content markup 'with the browser applet included' but targeting the desktop instead of a browser. That link is http://developers.curl.com/userdocs/CurlDocs.htm

The IDE itself offers selectable, installable docs with 'live' code in them by using the Curl {example} macro, so that is a much better option. Or there is the Eclipse plugin at www.curl.com

Since I still read about HTML as a 'language' and HTML5 starts to approach Curl in features, it may help clarify things to look at the case of a programming language that is also able to be its own markup language without adding a DSL. And which allows easy addition of custom tags with context-sensitive behaviors (the terrific and delicious consequence of macros being in a separate package from where they are used.)

Now back to how best to generate Curl markup from Drupal (with occasional sorties into Django, Seaside, Wicket, Groovy, QuarterMaster and such ...)

And suggestions just to use XSLT are always welcome ;-)

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