[Gllug] Website developement

[Jim Cheetham]

At 21:58 14/07/2001 +0100, David wrote:
>Now I have spotted lots of mistakes due to me creating it when I should
>be sleeping, as each page is almost identical, each page needs the same
>alterations to be made. But each page is non Identicle enough for it to
>be a pain in the arse to do.

Use Template Toolkit? Although it's perl under the hood, you can use it 
from the command line. ttree understands modification times of files, and 
won't re-process your files if you don't want it to.
See http://tt.gonzul.org for a short introduction, and 
http://template-toolkit.org for the full monty.
Also consider getting the perl HTML::Validator, combined with SP from James 
Clark, and you'll be able to validate your code to whatever HTML spec you 
want to use.

<language flame>
M4? When I started using it in the early 90s, even the oldest unix hacker 
could find nothing more than an old photocopied manual set for it. Someone 
with a sick sense of humour has resurrected it for Sendmail, and all of a 
sudden it's flavour of the month again? Bleh.

Yes, I did manage to create a site build process for 500+ pages with M4, 
and it did work a treat. But only after I'd spent time fighting with 
clashed between M4 and my source files.
</language flame>




Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim
Jim Cheetham jim at gonzul.org


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