## HTML Reader Writer (H-RW)

The goal is to be able to load html into swift from a file, manipulate it, then spit out html while retaining the benefits of a type safe language which serves as an alternative to templating. A BindingPlugin is also provided, this will analyze the html files and produce a swift file that will let you access html elements with IDs while retaining type infomation. Similar to Android's ViewBinding.

#### Thoughts

I suppose I wanted to be able to use plain html as is. In hindsight, it was too much effort for the payoff. This is mostly so I can build multipage websites with swift without the use of JS as a silly experiment.

There is also a HTML library called Plot that also lets you manipulate html, but it doesn't let you load it in from a file and treats HTML generations similarly to SwiftUI.

Perhaps this project can be repurposed as an LSP for html, but that's not much of an interest to me. It could also possibly be used to implement a renderer or translate html into a different UI format. However, I did not really take security into consideration when building this. 

There is also an HTML parser in LadyBird thats partially written in Swift. It seems to call into c++ for a handful of things, so it doesn't seem to be reusable without that.

## License

The license is a modified version of the PolyForm Noncommercial License (1.0.0) to add more non-commercial and non-ai use stipulations. Basically, if you're not making money then it's free to use. Depending on the project, I am open to distributing this source under a different license.

## Contributions

All contributors must agree to the CLA within. It is primarily based on Apache's ICLA. 

By signing off your git commits you are agreeing the CLA within the repository inside the file CLA.txt. 

You can sign off your commits via the signoff flag `git commit --signoff`