On Thu, 18 May 2017 15:33:42 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

Is there a way to compile diet templates that contain no actual dynamic
code to html? I'm writing some static html pages, and finding I miss the
terse diet format. Maybe there's an external tool that does this?

Would be cool to have a runtime diet parser that does this and just
errors when finding dynamic data.

-Steve

I did this ugly workaround, which is only tested with the diet template below:

  1. Create a Dub project with diet-ng as a dependency.
  2. Create a new file called src/html.d with this content: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rejectedsoftware/diet-ng/master/source/diet/html.d
  3. Do the following change: 
--- a/source/html.d
+++ b/source/html.d
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /** HTML output generator implementation.
 */
-module diet.html;
+module html;

 import diet.defs;
 import diet.dom;
@@ -187,8 +187,7 @@ string getHTMLMixin(in Document doc, string range_name = dietOutputRangeName, HT
        CTX ctx;
        ctx.pretty = style == HTMLOutputStyle.pretty;
        ctx.rangeName = range_name;
-       string ret = "import diet.internal.html : htmlEscape, htmlAttribEscape;\n";
-       ret ~= "import std.format : formattedWrite;\n";
+       string ret;
        foreach (i, n; doc.nodes)
                ret ~= ctx.getHTMLMixin(n, false);
        ret ~= ctx.flushRawText();
@@ -545,7 +544,6 @@ private struct CTX {
        {
                string ret;
                if (!this.inRawText) {
-                       ret = this.rangeName ~ ".put(\"";
                        this.inRawText = true;
                }
                ret ~= outputPendingNewline();
@@ -558,7 +556,7 @@ private struct CTX {
        {
                if (this.inRawText) {
                        this.inRawText = false;
-                       return "\");\n";
+                       return "";
                }
                return null;
        }
  1. Add the following code to src/app.d: 
import std.stdio;

import diet.parser;
import diet.dom;
import html;

void main()
{
    auto diet = "
doctype html
html
    head
        title D statement test
    body
        this is the body
";
    auto doc = parseDiet(diet);
    auto content = doc.getHTMLMixin();

	writeln(content);
}

To me it seems it would be fairly simple to make a few changes to diet-ng to have this working out of the box.

/Jacob Carlborg