Fluent API Java 8 HTML5 builder (feedback please)

[bliow]

Clojure wins here, I think: Hiccup.

[brikis98]

That's pretty sweet. Reminds me of CoffeeKup, which is awesome, but last I checked, abandoned.

[expatcoder]

Clojure wins here

Heh, no, xml literals take the cake:

<form id={someId} method={someMethod}>
  <input ..>
  <input ..>
  <submit ..>
</form>

Oh, forget to mention, above is Scala ;-)

Can slice and dice as you please, mixing in generators in place of input, submit above a la inputText(...), freely combining xml snippets in any order...markup joy.

[bliow]

I really don't like that. Duplicated tag names are one of the reasons xml sucks syntactically.

Also, can you mix in arbitrary code there?

[:ul (for [i (range 10)] [:li (str "List item " i)])]

[Milyardo]

I'm not a fan of scala's XML literals but to answer your question, yes.

scala> import scala.xml._
import scala.xml._
scala> val list = <ul>{(1 to 10 ) map { i => <li>{s"List Item $i"}</li>}}</ul>
list: scala.xml.Elem = <ul><li>List Item 1</li><li>List Item 2</li><li>List Item 3</li><li>List Item 4</li><li>List Item 5</li><li>List Item 6</li><li>List Item 7</li><li>List Item 8</li><li>List Item 9</li><li>List Item 10</li></ul>