Re: Started German website translation

[Patrick Strasser]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

>    And - although I guess this has been discussed before - did you
>    ever consider a *simple* way of automatically including header and
>    footer into each page, using a Makefile that does something like
>
> Not really.  But I'll be that such a patch would be loved by us all.
> I'm not totally familiar with CSS, but wouldn't this be possible if
> that was used?  

CSS can "decorate" HTML and, if you are venturous, move parts of of the 
contents on screen. But it can not include or process data.

XML could do this, but I don't think we want it work that way.

> If not, a simple way to shove the header stuff into
> the file, would be to add a magic string to each file, and then do a
> simple search-and-replace.  Hmmm... Maybe the time-stamps on each page
> would get screwd up...  Anyway, I think the idea is worth thinking
> about, and even implementing.

A script (Perl?) run every now and than and/or when cahnges are made 
would be nice. You write HTML pages with your contents, the script 
extracts some data like timestamp and Title/keywords, generates a menu 
liek we have on the left side, and puts the body of the page in right 
place. Footer with correct timestamp added. That's it. Sounds simple. 
But I can't do Perl, should learn it.

But let's see if we can get this done with XML...

Patrick
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