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		hwc on May 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: That people produce HTML with string templates is ... I've begun relying on building DOM trees and then using a render() function to serialize them. e.g. <https://gist.github.com/HalCanary/fd4ec75ae950196454f09051a5...> or <https://gist.github.com/HalCanary/169105aad5971268988fee80d1...>. When producing PDF document back when I was in charge of SkPDF (used by billions!), we had to generate the PDF files that way, since the serialized format is very precise.

lelanthran on May 26, 2023 [–]

I've done the same, in a way that I think is slightly better. Not yet opensource (too tied into my current project to refactor into an isolated package/module), but I hope to do so soon.

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