Hi, I know this is not what you're asking for, but maybe some lateral thinking could help with your need. Jump to the end for the TL;DR suggestion or bear with me some paragraphs for a practical example.
In our project about "IndieWeb with Brea", we use Pandoc and some external tools to produce the web site you see in [1] from Markdown files in [2] combining them with templates done is Mustache[3], as the one in [3a]. Everything is orchestrated by the minimalist Pharo based Brea CMS[4] and produced using interactive Grafoscopio[5] notebooks and stored in Fossil[6] SCM, which proves timelines[6a], user management, permissions and wiki like views of each page (click on the top right corner Icons of each page to see it). It has been a pretty agile experience and kind of our "pocket infrastructures" approach to decoupled/headless CMS, even before we knew about them (and their rising). [1] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/ [2] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/tree?type=tree&name=docs/es [3] https://github.com/noha/mustache [3a] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/doc/trunk/docs/es/pagina.mus.html [4] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/brea/ [5] https://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/en.html [6] https://fossil-scm.org/ [6a] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/timeline [7] https://github.com/pillar-markup/MicroDown We use Pandoc because of historical reasons and because we need YAML metadata headers, multiformat support including PDF export with custom pre-processors (Pandoc filters). But, at some point I would like to use Microdown[7] as a pure Pharo native format when Pandoc is not available or as a replacement/complement for Pandoc filters. So, my lateral thinking suggestion is why not to avoid HTML altogether? Mustache and Microdown could take you far regarding light web deployment and development. Cheers, Offray On 28/09/20 12:28 p. m., Tim Mackinnon wrote: > Hi - has anyone ever managed to extract the html builder out of seaside - or > written something equivalent? > > I often find I want to build some HTML, but don’t want the full seaside - and > was wondering if anyone has managed to extract it, or have something similar? > > This combined with Renoir from BA-ST would give a good little light weight > web potential to run with Zinc. > > Tim
