Introduction

This system is currently in need of a good name. I will use either ``mlt'' or generic terms to refer to it for now.

mlt is a system for the creation of dynamic web sites based around Standard ML. The meat of the system deals with compiling a template language. This language is purposely simplistic. It's not possible to create a non-terminating template without the complicity of SML code that it calls. Templates look like HTML source files with SML-like code inserted in strategic places. They are capable of full interaction with all types and values in any SML structures. The current implementation interfaces with web servers via the standard CGI protocol.