Static content generator
I wanted the pages of my site to have a consistent style. As they
change rather infrequently, I didn't see the need for installing a complete
CMS. A generator for static HTML pages would have been fine, but
I couldn't find such a program anywhere. The usual solution
was writing one myself. Essentially the task
consists in replacing some parts in a text file (the HTML template)
by the actual content, and generating others automatically
(menu, headline, footer etc.).
Comparing usual languages under this aspect, it turns out that
shells are most suited for this task.
Replacing parts of a text by variable values
or even by results of program calls, is a very common operation
there. So I started developing a static content generator consisting
of a set of Korn shell scripts. The present pages are a result
of the first version. As the development is still in progress,
I won't give a detailed description here yet. Presently, I
am rebuilding the scripts in a way that makes use of the
object oriented features of the latest Korn shell.
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