Expose parser

[dy]

HTL is nice sugared alternative to htm and hyperx. Would be nice to be able to use its parser separately, for eg. VDOM purposes.

[mbostock]

What do you have in mind? HTL doesn’t construct an intermediate representation of the DOM that would be suitable for passing to a VDOM implementation (such as HyperScript or React.createElement). Instead, HTL concatenates markup which is then parsed by the browser using a template element.

We could expose the generated markup, but I don’t see how that would be especially useful outside of this library since it will contain the attribute and data placeholders (e.g., an attribute named “::1” or a comment “<!--::2-->”).

[dy]

I see. Yes, there doesn’t seem to be a simple way to convert html string with placeholders to hyperscript. Only if using htm for that purpose) I guess that can be closed then.

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What do you have in mind? HTL doesn’t construct an intermediate representation of the DOM that would be suitable for passing to a VDOM implementation (such as HyperScript or React.createElement). Instead, HTL concatenates markup which is then parsed by the browser using a template element.

We could expose the generated markup, but I don’t see how that would be especially useful outside of this library since it will contain the attribute and data placeholders (e.g., an attribute named “::1” or a comment “”).

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[mbostock]

Copy that. Thanks for the suggestion regardless!