Re: Ada Advocacy - WPG (Web Page Generation) scheme

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> I've had an idea (not a blindingly original one) which might be a
> way to help promote Ada. Dynamic web content is all the rage these
> days; there are dozens of techniques used by millions of people to
> achieve it, including but not limited to SSI, ASP, JSP, PHP, CGI,
> and many other acronyms.

I was thinking of something like this, but in the context of embedded
servers. I already have an unpublished Embedded Web Server, in Ada of
course, but it only handles static content at the moment.

AWS in this context is far too capable! I need to run in -- well,
something a little larger than a toaster, a printer perhaps.

As for the syntax, I think it would be better to look at a more
XML-based syntax, which would have the advantage that you could view
the raw, unprocessed pages in any web browser. This is not an original
idea, but I forget where else you can find it .. anyway, something
like

  <ews:include with="Ada.Text_IO"/>
  <ews:if test="x &gt; 0"> some text </ews:if>

-S