[cells-devel] undersold aspect of cells

[Andy Chambers]

Hey Kenny,

Here's an aspect of cells that I haven't seen highlighted before.

The html macros I made pretty much constitute a schema for html.  Not
only does it
concisely say what attributes are allowed on each element, but it gives you the
object model for dealing with instances of these elements, and a nice set of
macros for easily creating them.

A couple of "validation" defmethods and I think we've got something that may be
better even than relax-ng (the unstated assumption here is that its
not hard to be
better than xml schema).

I know that lispers generally aren't that fond of xml but I bet there
are a few that
use it on their day job (as someone who's day job involves dealing with CDISC's
various models it certainly is important for me).

Since you're using your blog as a lisp/cells advocacy platform, maybe you could
demonstrate this by creating a few macros that do a similar thing for
RSS.  I'd do
it myself but I don't have a blog (I've never really felt that I've
had enough to say
to merit it but I am starting to get itchy fingers these days, hence
the ramblings
on cells-devel).

--
Andy