remixml

Remixml

Remixml is an XML/HTML macro language/template engine.

The language and primitives used blend in completely with standard XML/HTML syntax and therefore integrate smoothly with existing XML/HTML syntax colouring editors.

Requirements

It runs inside any webbrowser environment (starting at IE11 and up).

The engine uses browser primitives to accellerate parsing; most notably it uses documentFragments and will therefore have trouble running in a plain NodeJS environment.

Basic usage

In essence Remixml is a macro language that has HTML/XML-like syntax and uses special entities to fill in templates. The entities that are recognised by Remixml are always of the form: &scope.varname; I.e. they distinguish themselves from regular HTML entities by always having at least one dot in the entity name.

The following sample code will illustrate the point:

Remixml.parse('<h1>Title of &_.sitename; for &_.description;</h1>'
  + '<p at="&anything.whatever;"> Some global variables &var.some; '
  + 'or &var.globalvars; or'
  + ' &var.arrays.1; or &var.arrays.2; or &var.objects.foo; or '
  + '&anything.really;',
 {_: {
    sitename: "foo.bar",
    description: "faster than lightning templates"
  },
  var: {
    some: "other",
    globalvars: 7,
    arrays: ["abc", 14, "def"],
    objects: {"foo":"bar", "indeed":"yes"}
  },
  anything: {
    really: "other",
    whatever: 7
  }
 });

Reference documentation

Full entity syntax

Language statements

API

Official website

Soon to be launched:

• The Remixml website.
• For historical reference: Remixml was originally inspired by RXML, the Roxen webserver macro language.