[elm-discuss] Elm as templating engine

[Birowsky]

Trying to use elm as a templating engine for AMP pages. But they have
specific requirements where I need to specify attributes without values. Is
that possible with some elm construct?

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/tutorials/create/basic_markup

for an example:

amp =
boolProperty "⚡" True


creates `⚡="true"` instead of just the `⚡`

[Gusztáv Szikszai]

You need to use `attribute` with an empty string as
value. https://ellie-app.com/4ckwSKX7YKGa1/0

Post by Birowsky
Trying to use elm as a templating engine for AMP pages. But they have
specific requirements where I need to specify attributes without values. Is
that possible with some elm construct?
https://www.ampproject.org/docs/tutorials/create/basic_markup
amp =
boolProperty "⚡" True
creates `⚡="true"` instead of just the `⚡`

[Birowsky]

Unfortunately, it just adds `=""`. You can't see it in the dev tools
because the browser strips it away.

Now, while the validation passes with empty string as a value, what
frightens me, is that the AMP docs state that the online validator is not a
complete validation and some errors would surface only after google crawls
the content. I swear I read it somewhere in the official docs, I'll update
when I find it :}

[Peter Damoc]

Post by Birowsky
Unfortunately, it just adds `=""`. You can't see it in the dev tools
because the browser strips it away.

Fortunately that is OK as it is implicitly equivalent to what you want:
http://w3c.github.io/html/infrastructure.html#sec-boolean-attributes
(see the first Note of the section)

[Birowsky]

Yap, that's the route I took. If you don't hear back from me, it means
Google has not complained :}

['Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss]

Post by Birowsky
Trying to use elm as a templating engine for AMP pages. But they have
specific requirements where I need to specify attributes without values. Is
that possible with some elm construct?
https://www.ampproject.org/docs/tutorials/create/basic_markup
amp =
boolProperty "⚡" True
creates `⚡="true"` instead of just the `⚡`

I know its horrible, but the only way I can think of to do it is to use
Html.text:

Html.text "<div with-valueless-attribute>"

Valueless attributes do not seem to be allowed by the Elm virtual DOM code,
even though they can be valid Html:

https://github.com/elm-lang/virtual-dom/blob/master/src/VirtualDom.elm#L159