Using Spark View Engine in a stand alone application

My client application needs to generate HTML. I'd like to use a template/view engine solution like Spark, but I'm not sure whether Spark can be used outside of an ASP.NET application. Does anyone know of any samples or documentation about usin开发者_如何学JAVAg Spark in this way?

(If you know of other view engine solutions that can be used stand-alone, I'd be curious to hear about those, too.)

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In addition to the other examples, I found a simple one in the Spark source itself. The Xpark project is a command-line application for transforming XML using Spark. Louis DeJardin, the creator of Spark, described how Xpark works on his blog.

The relevant code snippets are:

    // Create an engine using the templates path as the root location
    // as well as the shared location
    var engine = new SparkViewEngine
        {
             DefaultPageBaseType = typeof(SparkView).FullName,
             ViewFolder = viewFolder.Append(new SubViewFolder(viewFolder, "Shared"))
        };

    SparkView view;

    // compile and instantiate the template
    view = (SparkView)engine.CreateInstance(
                          new SparkViewDescriptor()
                              .AddTemplate(templateName));

    // render the view to stdout
    using (var writer = new StreamWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput(), Encoding.UTF8))
    {
        view.RenderView(writer);
    }

This was enough to get me pointed in the right direction. But I'll definitely dive into the other examples as well.

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You should check out Docu, this project uses the Spark view engine to generate HTML documentation (not from an ASP.NET web application).

Be warned though, I don't know that the project is using Spark version 1.0, it might be an earlier build.

http://docu.jagregory.com/

http://github.com/jagregory/docu

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Sure. Probably the most complete example is to look at the Spark view engine code for ASP.NET MVC itself.

It's also under test, so reading the tests should give you a very good starting point.

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If it helps anyone else, I needed to accomplish something similar using the Spark engine outside of an MVC project.
I created a sample (very simplified) C# project of using the Spark view engine to do simple template operations. Maybe someone could use it as a starting point /shrug
http://jezel.googlecode.com/files/SparkTemplateExample.zip

Most of my template code is based off of reviewing Jonas Gauffin's C# WebServer project where he uses the Spark Engine for templates in a similar fashion.

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See the examples in: https://github.com/SparkViewEngine/spark/tree/master/src/Samples/DirectUsage

Unfortunately these appear to require System.Web.Mvc, which I'd rather not reference.