\
**Category:** Questions & Answers\
**Tags:** scribble\
**Created:** [August 8, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/scribble-pre-rendered-html/1216 "2022-08-08T11:16:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1
**Author:**  [@soegaard](https://racket.discourse.group/u/soegaard)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/scribble-pre-rendered-html/1216/1 "2022-08-08T11:16:49Z")
Hi All,
I am working on `pyffi` a way to use Python libraries from Racket.
As an example I want to use Pygments as a showcase.
Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter and more than 500 languages are supported.
It would be great to use Pygments from within Scribble.
Currently, I can send a string of program text `code` to Pygments and get a
string containing html back. With the `noclasses` option the css styles are inline.
```
(pystring->string
(highlight code (PythonLexer) (HtmlFormatter #:noclasses #t)))
```
My problem is getting this string of html untouched through the html renderer of Scribble.
Looking around for solutions I found out I asked by the same think back in 2010 [1].
Matthew added `cond-element` to produce different output for different renderers as a result.
I also discovered that that Shririam uses `sxml->element` (by Danny Yoo) which converts html represented as sxml into a Scribble element. He uses it to embed YouTube videos and Google Forms in Scribble generated documents. The sxml here is written by hand.
There is an html to sxml parser in `sxml`, so I tried this:
```
(define (html->element x)
(map sxml->element
(cdr (ssax:xml->sxml (open-input-string x) '()))))
```
It _almost_ works. The problem is that the `sxml` eats spaces here and there.
The example below shows that the space between `def` and `partition` is missing.
This "solution" is fragile and even if it could be made to work -- I can't help thinking that I am crossing the river to fetch water [2].
Am I misssing a simple solution?
[1]
[https://groups.google.com/g/racket-users/c/Ogp5tWcTCF4/m/kt8adVADCigJ](https://groups.google.com/g/racket-users/c/Ogp5tWcTCF4/m/kt8adVADCigJ)
[2]
Danish idiom.
---
**Author:**  [@soegaard](https://racket.discourse.group/u/soegaard)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/scribble-pre-rendered-html/1216/2 "2022-08-10T08:48:34Z")
In case someone knows how to get the `ssax:xml->sxml` to preserve the spaces.
The issue is that a space between two `span`s is eaten.
```scheme
def partition
```
Here is all the html generated by Pygments.
```scheme
"def partition(l, r, nums):\n# Last element will be the pivot and the first element the pointer\npivot, ptr = nums[r], l\nfor i in range(l, r):\n if nums[i] <= pivot:\n # Swapping values smaller than the pivot to the front\n nums[i], nums[ptr] = nums[ptr], nums[i]\n ptr += 1\n# Finally swapping the last element with the pointer indexed number\nnums[ptr], nums[r] = nums[r], nums[ptr]\nreturn ptr\n
**Author:**  [@soegaard](https://racket.discourse.group/u/soegaard)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/scribble-pre-rendered-html/1216/3 "2022-08-10T11:51:50Z")
Using `html-parsing` instead of `sxml` does the trick.
```scheme
(define (html->element x)
(define top (cdr (html->xexp (open-input-string x))))
(map sxml->element top))
```
Thanks to sorawee for the tip.
---
**Author:**  [@plragde](https://racket.discourse.group/u/plragde)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/scribble-pre-rendered-html/1216/4 "2022-08-14T22:42:54Z")
I use the scribble-minted library by William Bowman.
> **[scribble-minted](https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/scribble-minted)**
>
> A scribble library for using pygmentize.
The compile fails here because pygmentize has not been installed.
---
**Author:**  [@soegaard](https://racket.discourse.group/u/soegaard)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/scribble-pre-rendered-html/1216/5 "2022-08-18T15:01:07Z")
Thanks for the tip. I have looked at the code, but can't figure out how it converts the output from html to Scribble.
---
**Author:**  [@joeld](https://racket.discourse.group/u/joeld)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/scribble-pre-rendered-html/1216/6 "2022-08-18T19:51:51Z")
Looks like it just gets the raw HTML and shunts it into CDATA
>