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Mark Edgar wrote:

On 3/15/07, Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

<?lua
for i=1,10 do
?>
<p><%= tostring(i) %></p>
<?lua
end
?>


I can't stand all the <?lua ?> cruft.  Instead, I use slslpp:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/SlightlyLessSimpleLuaPreprocessor

# for i = 1,10 do
<p>$(i)</p>
# end

Of course, this doesn't answer the OP's question.  I think the answer
to that question is: if you want KidLanguage, you know where to find
it. ;)




Well... I actually have implemented my template library inspired on Kid.
I like Lua, like Kid but don't quite like XML, so...

-- sometemplate.lua
html{
  head{
    title{ "Hello, world" };
    link{ rel = "stylesheet", src = "style.css" };
  };
  body{
    div{ id = "header"; "Welcome to ${sitetitle}!" };
    div{ _if = "session.logged"; id = "menu"; class = "sidemenu";
      ul{
        li{ _for = "i, section in ipairs( session.sections )";
            a{ href = "${section.href}", "${section.title}" };
        };
      };
    };
  };
};
And it compiles (on the fly) another Lua script (for performance and debugging reasons): 

out("<html>")
out("<head>")
out("<title>")
out("Hello, world")
...
out("<div id=\"header\">")
out("Welcome to ")
out(sanitize(sitetitle))
out("!")
if (session.logged) then
  out("<div id=\"menu\" class=\"sidemenu\">")
  out("<ul>")
  for i, section in ipairs( session.sections ) do
    out("<li>")
    out("<a href=\"")
    out(section.href)
    out("\">")
    out(sanitize(section.title))
    out("</a>")
    out("</li>")
  end
  out("</ul>")
  out("</div>")
end
...
out("</html>")


Of course, in real-world, I optimize those outputs to something like:
out("<html><head><title>Hello, World</title> ... <div id=\"header\">Welcome to ", sanitize(sitetile), "!") 
if (session.logged) then
  out("<div id=\"menu\" class=\"sidemenu\"><ul>")
  for i, section in ipairs( session.sections ) do
out("<li><a href=\"",section.href,"\">",sanitize(section.title),"</a></li>") 
  end
  out("</ul></div>")
end
out("...</body></html>")
I must say it is quite comfortable and fast. The only drawback is that debug can get a bit boring, because the line numbers differs (the one in which the expression was declared and the one which lies on the compiled code) 

--rb