HTML stands for '''HyperText [Markup Language]'''.
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html is also a module in the [tcllib] library of tcl code. 
Its purpose is to aid developers in generating HTML programmatically. 
Related modules are [ncgi], [javascript], and [htmlparse].

Documentation can be found at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/html.html

See [tcllib/html questions].

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Many with an interest in HTML will want to know about the [HTML widgets] page, 
which discusses widgets that ''render'' HTML into a visual representation.

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If only parsing of HTML is required, without rendering, 
[htmlparse] (a module in [tcllib]) is a possible solution. 
Other solutions include [tkHTML] compiled for use without Tk, and [tcltidy].

Some Tclers advertise [tDOM]'s [XPath]-oriented parser as desirable
for HTML work.  This seems particularly popular among European brethren.
Note [Jochen Loewer]'s report on his eBay [Web scraping] at the
[Second European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting] ( http://www.tu-harburg.de/skf/tcltk/tclum2001.pdf.gz ('''404''')).

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A posting to comp.lang.tcl contained a really small example - it can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/4c4639ead0d852f8/818f81c90be142fc

If the task is to 'pull out' some data out of a HTML page, I'm indeed a
strong believer in the 'parse the HTML page into a tree and query that
tree' approach. For real life problems, I claim that this approach is
much simpler and easier to maintain - and for sure, you have to
maintain such a thingy, because the layout of HTML pages tend to change
frequently - than every regexp approach. Sure, you have to learn
another query language - xpath in this case. But if you are really in
the web business, there are chances you have to learn xpath anyway.

de
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If the task is to generate HTML or XML, try xmlgen, a package within
TclXML and found on http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclxml/ .
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Can Someone submit a sample example code for using html:: package . I need to know how all functions glue together.I read cgi.tcl based examples. More exactly I am wondering If I need to call html::closetags for closing. That is not the case with cgi.tcl. Because of this lack of info I could not use. I am just new to TCL but appreciate its "power from simplicity" approach. Does html:: really a substitute for cgi.tcl
-valli
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Some example code from comp.lang.tcl :

> Hi,

> I'm just starting to work with the html generation package of tcllib (ver
> 1.2.2). Can anyone point me to some examples of how the tcllib html
> generation package is used?

Quick taste,

 (bin) 15 % package require html
 1.1
 (bin) 16 % html::textInput first_name
 <input type="text" name="first_name" value="" size="45">

 (bin) 17 % html::textInputRow "MY LABEL" test_row
 <tr>
        <td>MY LABEL</td>
        <td><input type="text" name="test_row" value="" size="45">
        </td>
 </tr>

 (bin) 24 % set people {John Doe Mary Poppins Jack {B. Nimble}}
 John Doe Mary Poppins Jack {B. Nimble}
 (bin) 25 % html::tableFromList $people
 <TABLE ><tr>
        <td>John</td>
        <td>Doe</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
        <td>Mary</td>
        <td>Poppins</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
        <td>Jack</td>
        <td>B. Nimble</td>
 </tr>
 </TABLE>

 similarly there's html::tableFromArray, proc html::checkbox etc...
 Using the html package with tclhttpd templates makes form/page
 generation quite simple;-)

Reference link
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/addc4fd39b2eade3/643858bdf6de4509



[RLH] 2006-02-20: It probably shouldn't spit out uppercase tags like <TABLE>.

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[Wub] utility for structured HTML tag generation web.

Latest version may be sourced here [http://wub.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Utilities/Html.tcl] and perused here [http://code.google.com/p/wub/source/browse/trunk/Utilities/Html.tcl]

[CMcC] is the current custodian, but help and improvement is welcome.


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See also [august html editor], [url-encoding], [html2text]

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