You could look at the FORM feature in HTML+
<ftp://ds.internic.net/draft-raggett-www-html-00.{ps,txt}>
which is a failrly complete user-fillable form, with submission
either by email or by HTTP as specified inside the form.
That's more like it.
People, sorry about the tone of my previous message. From what Ned says,
it appears that Safe-TCL isn't all that hard to implement after all. But,
even so, it _is_ complete overkill for forms entry IMHO.
I don't understand how bringing TCL into the picture is more overkill than
bringing in an SGML variant. SGML ain't all that simple nor small either. (
Well, that I know of.. I'd love to be proven wrong).
The attraction to TCL, as I see it is:
- It is easily available off the shelf. While I have written interpreters
in the past I fully appreciate not having to go through it again.
- It is very portable having been ported into many non-Unix environments.
The only problem with the portability is that Dr. Ousterhout hasn't folded
those changes into the mainstream code.
- Has a fairly straightforward and readable syntax.
- Makes a good choice, and was designed to be, an embedded configuration or
command language. If your application is to have one the same TCL
interpreter
code can serve as both the Safe-TCL as well as the embedded command language.
- Is a full programming language for those cases where you DO want that power.
Just means that novices should be presented with the useful commands first
and leave other things until later. If someone is interested in writing
programs you can point them at Dr. Ousterhouts book due out sometime in
the next few months.
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