Vibe.d diet templates

[JG]

On Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 09:16:56 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 08:23:54 UTC, JG wrote:
>> Suppose I have an array of attributes and values v is there 
>> any way to apply these attributes to a tag?
>>
>> So that something like
>>
>> tag(#{v[0]0]}=#{v[0][1]},...})
>>
>> becomes
>>
>> <tag attribute0=value0 ....>
>>
>> where v[0][0]="attribute0" and v[0][1]="value0"?
>
> I think there is nothing for this built-in in diet, so you have 
> to manually emit raw HTML:
>
> ```diet
> - import std.xml : encode;
> - auto start = appender!string;
> - start ~= "<tag";
> - foreach (pair; v)
>     - start ~= " ";
>     - start ~= pair[0].encode;
>     - start ~= "=\"";
>     - start ~= pair[1].encode;
>     - start ~= '"';
> - start ~= ">";
> |!= start
> // content here
> |!= "</tag>"
> ```
>
> Maybe some attribute splat operator would be nice for this.

Thanks, this works. I would have thought this would be a common 
enough use case to have support in diet. Anyone else wanted this?