Most used Haml features

[Russell Allen]

Hi all,

As some of you may know, I'm working on a .Net port of Haml (predictably enough, nHaml). I've got an engine now that handles what I think is the bare minimum Haml stuff, namely:

• Tags - Normal, implicit div and self-closing tags (HTML4, XHTML4, HTML5)
  
• Nested tags
  
• Attributes - Normal, html-style and boolean attributes (HTML4, XHTML4, HTML5)
  
• Comments- Silent and markup
  
• Whitespace munching
  
• Variable interpolation
  
• C# code evaluation with = token
  

So I now have an engine I can just about use in production. But what Haml features should I be looking at next? At the moment, I can see I'm missing support for:

1. C# code control with - token
   
2. Line escaping with \ token
   
3. Internal filters
   
4. Ruby style attributes
   
5. Doctype tags with !!! token
   
6. Multiline strings with | token
   
7. HTML Escaping with &=, =, !=
   
8. Whitespace preservation
   

I've put the above list in order of what I think is most important, what do you all think? Am I missing some killer Haml feature that you live and die by? Does HTML escaping save you masses of time day in day out?

Any feedback much appreciated, thanks,

Russ

[Hampton Catlin]

My gut-feeling feedback mostly follows our implementation order.

1, 5, 2, 3, 8, 4, 7, 6.

6 is discouraged anyway.

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