darioteixeira / tyxml

OCaml library to build valid HTML5 and SVG trees.

TypedXML

TyXML allows you to build XML trees whose validity is ensured by the typechecker. It's based on a traduction of XML types into polymorphic variants, originally written by Thorsten Ohl. Currently, the transcription has been done for HTML5 and SVG.

TyXML also provides a generic printer and some low-level (and untyped) iterators over XML trees. The printer has options for printing HTML in more browser-friendly way when served as "text/html" (instead of "text/xml"). HTML5 is always printed with those options.

All modules provided by TyXML are also provided in functorial interface, where every module is parameterised by the underlying XML representation.

A camlp4 extension, named Pa_tyxml, allows to write HTML pages or HTML fragments with the usual syntax. For creating HTML5- or SVG-nodes, the syntax extension relies on the presence of a module called Html5 or Svg which keeps the actual implementation, e.g.

let module Html5 = Eliom_content.Html5.F in
<:html5< <div>xyz</div> >>

You can find the documentation on the TyXML website.

How to

Installation

TyXML is available in opam : opam install tyxml

You can also use the ocsigen opam repository for the dev version : opam repository add ocsigen-dev http://ocsigen.org/opam

Manual build

Requirements:

• ocaml and camlp4
• findlib

Build instructions:

./configure
make
make install

API documentation:

make doc
${BROWSER} _build/tyxml-api.docdir/index.html