Re: Started German website translation

[Marco Gerards]

Patrick Strasser <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

How about using Make and cpp for this?  You include stuff using
"#include "foo.html" and run make to generate the htmls for the page.

Perhaps this is a stupid idea, but we all know about make and cpp. :)

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Marco