Comments to “My new blog… in Objective Caml”

By: Sylvain Le Gall

Sylvain Le Gall — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:20:39 +0000

Why not use apache as a reverse proxy and have ocsigen run on port 8080?

By: bluestorm

bluestorm — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:29:52 +0000

Re. text markup process, you may be interested in those two existing OCaml projects :

- mldown : https://iuwt.fr/~asmanur/mldown/

> mldown is a modular text formatter (like markdown) able to take

several syntaxes in input, perform complex tasks on the abstract

representation (such as generating a table of contents) and

outputs in different languages (xHTML and latex are currently

supported)

- lambdoc : https://lambdoc.forge.ocamlcore.org/

> Lambdoc is a library providing support for semantically complex

documents in Ocsigen web applications. It includes parsers for three

different markup languages, and the possibility to output a Lambdoc

document as an Ocsigen XHTML.M value.

A satisfying mldown documentation is available directly on the front page.

Lambdoc documentation is a bit hard to find. You may be interested in :

- intro.txt : https://forge.ocamlcore.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/lambdoc/src/apidoc/intro.txt?view=markup&revision=67&root=lambdoc

- arch.png : https://forge.ocamlcore.org/scm/viewvc.php/*checkout*/trunk/lambdoc/src/apidoc/lambdoc-arch.png?root=lambdoc&revision=545

PS : there are weird things with you markup. Due to the unfortunate choice of double-/ as markup, one cannot use two URLs in a single line.

Example : http:foo.com http:foo.com

A reasonable fix would be to consider only the double-/ pairs at word boundaries (left boundary for the left one in the pair, right boundary for the other).

By: Matías Giovannini

Matías Giovannini — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:54:56 +0000

Bravo, Paolo! Is there any chance you'd show us your code? Clean-up is definitely not necessary: I'm sure you judge yourself far more harshly than anybody else would do, especially seeing that it just works.

By: Dmitry Grebeniuk

Dmitry Grebeniuk — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:56:28 +0000

CamlTemplate is written by Benjamin Geer, not by me. I'm only maintaining it.

By: Paolo Donadeo

Paolo Donadeo — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:44:10 +0000

Sorry for the delay, but I'm currently in a hospital and the Internet connection from my mobile is really uncomfortable.

@Sylvain: for some reasons our network admin decided to keep at the minimum the number of modules installed with Apache, and the reverse proxy module is not installed. I asked, but no exceptions were allowed for my personal blog :-) In any case I still consider Eliom over FastCGI/AJP a huge plus, because it's a very common setup for many hosting providers.

@bluestorm: very interesting, I'm considering to switch to mldown. In any case the double slash can be escaped with a backslash \// like in https://aaa.bbb.com https://ccc.aaa.com. You can try with the comment preview. No comment please, it's my first parser :-)

@Matías: a repository is available, I'll publish it on GitHub ASAP, today the doctors will probably discharge me from the hospital, now I'm writing from a bed, with 2 fingers of my left hand, and a GIT push is problematic :)

@Dmitry: thanks for the clarification, I've just corrected the post.

By: Giorgio regni

Giorgio regni — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:46:12 +0000

Congrats! Do it yourself is always a good idea to learn a new programing language and its libraries. Like Matias said, I would be interested in looking at the code too.

Cheers