[erlang-questions] Basic questions, also related to yaws and mnesia

[Filippo Pacini]

Hi,
I'm a little partisan here :-), but you might be interested in sgte
http://sgte.googlecode.com

It' s a simple template language. In your example you could write
something like this:

gen_html(Entities) ->
Data = [{entities, [sgte:rec_to_kv(Rec, record_info(fields,
entity_links)) || Rec <- Entities]}],
{ok, C} = sgte:compile("$map:{<a href=\"$main_url$\">$url_title$</a>}
entities$"),
sgte:render(C, Data)}.

The template instead of a string can also be an html file, so you can
write html templates containing sgte instructions and you pass the data
to be rendered at runtime.

cheers,
filippo


Berlin Brown wrote:
> I should probably move away from yaws for a sec and go over the
> basics, but I am really close to what I want to do.
> 
> I have a record and a list of records, but I don't know the best ways
> to extract the data and show the data out of the record.
> 
> For example, with this code; how would I iterate(map?) those links and
> display them.
> 
> out(Args) ->
> 	{ok, EntityLinks} = botlist_find_links:find_links(),
> 	{ html,
> 	 	yaws_api:f("~p", [EntityLinks])
> 	}.
> 
> This is the record.
> -record(entity_links, {main_url, url_title, keywords, rating,
> full_name, created_on}).
>