Looking at the code for $http_agent, it's suffering from much the same problems Java's Servlet's do - lots of print statements containing HTML fragments, and the answer is much like that for servlets was JSP - MSP. Have properties like "foo.msp", which would look like:

<h1> Here's a list </h1>
<ul>
  <% for p in (this.pages) %>
    <li> <a href="<%= p.url %>"><%= p.content %></a>
  <% endfor %>
<ul>

Then, rework the HTTP request handler so that any requests for pages that end in .msp are pulled through the MSP engine and rendered. Can still leave the / handling that currently exists, for form handling, etc.

-- CoKe - 28 Nov 2003

"I can't be the first person to try to do this."

And, I'm not. http://www.moo.ca/ has a working implementation, though their source is obscured.

-- CoKe - 29 Dec 2003

• MSP.code: Sample implementation of a possible MSP engine.

-- JeffR - 22 Dec 2005

moo.ca's MSP home: http://www.moo.ca/301

and gopher://moo.ca/0/300:compile appears to be the core of their MSP compiler.
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