Re: How do you build your HTML?

[drieux]

On Dec 15, 2003, at 7:57 AM, Kevin Old wrote:
[..]
I've been "hand coding" HTML for some time now, but recently a lazy
streak has run through me and I'd like to find a way to "autogenerate"
creation of a lot of my HTML.  Thing is, I'd also like it to be HTML
4.01 compliant.
I'd rather not go the CGI.pm route as I am generating static pieces of
HTML for use in HTML::Mason pages.  A table here, a link there, and so
forth, in the end it seems that I can never catch all the errors for
HTML 4.01 compliance.
[..]

Kevin,

it shoulds like you have mutually conflicting goals here.
On the one hand you want to 'automate' a process of
creating 'static pages' - hence there are three basic steps:
        select a template of a basic html page
        edit the template as a new page
        "post" the new page on the web site
Now bear with me, this is gonna sound a bit dopey, but
it is based upon what I have done, prior to turning
over most of this to bbedit.
        make a directory with the basic pages
                each is named by what it templates
                        blog.tmpl
                        table.tmpl
                        ....
        have your application either take a 'template' name
                cf Getopts::Long
        or walk the dirBlock of the template directory with
                opendir() and readdir()
        present the list to the user,
        get the choice back
        copy the template to say /tmp
        invoke $EDITOR on it with system()
        then have it ftp it up to the web-site
Or do you want it to also validate that you have not
injected brainSillies into the html as well?
ciao
drieux
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