Hi Monks,

I've been working on a script that will print out the tags and meta tags I would usually write in a xhtml page before I begin to write out the page's content.

I would appreciate your comments/criticism on the script.

Thanks for your time

The script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Program: ~/bin/newxhtmlpage
# Syntax: newxhtmlpage [> yourpagename.html]

# Modules:
use strict;


page_specs ();
page_head ();
page_body ();


sub page_specs {
    # The document's specifications

    # Variables:
    my $xml_version; # xml version
    my $encoding; # encoding to use

    $encoding="iso-8859-1";
    $xml_version="1.0";

    print <<XHTMLSPECS;
<?xml version="$xml_version" encoding="$encoding"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
XHTMLSPECS
}


sub page_head {
    # The head area of the web page

    # Variables:
    my $pagetitle; # page's title
    my $author; # author's name
    my $copyright_holder; # the copyright holder
    my $chartset; # character set
    # Does $chartset have to be the same as
    # $encoding in page_specs?
    my $default_keywords;
    my $default_description;

    # Variable defaults:
    $pagetitle="PUT-YOUR-TITLE-HERE";
    $author="mynamehere";
    $copyright_holder=$author;
    $chartset="iso-8859-1";
    $default_keywords="";
    $default_description="";

    print <<XHTMLHEAD;
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
        chartset=$chartset" />

        <meta name="author" content="$author" />
        <meta name="copyright" content="$copyright_holder" />

        <meta name="keywords" content="$default_keywords" />
        <meta name="description" content="$default_description" />

        <title>$pagetitle</title>
    </head>
XHTMLHEAD
}


sub page_body {
    # The body area and closing tag

    print <<XHTMLBODY;
    <body>

    </body>
</html>
}

# End

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Edit kudra, 2002-04-16 Added readmore

In reply to Making a 'blank' xhtml page - request for comments by func

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