Re: Off-Line Content Management Scheme?

I use M4 and make.

M4 is a venerable, standard macro language and make is great for keeping everything in sync. It's also really easy to learn.

define(`_foo',`<H1>$1</H1>')dnl
_foo(`That was easy')dnl
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Now you know how to use M4.

Okay, maybe it's not that simple...

Here's the link to the manual for Gnu's M4. http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/html_node/index.html

It's great for writing re-usable chunks (_my_header(), _my_footer(), etc..). Not so great for complex formatting (e.g., automatically generating a table of contents from all your different sections)

-Pileofrogs

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Re^2: Off-Line Content Management Scheme? by Dogma (Pilgrim) on Jan 05, 2006 at 06:24 UTC
I don't want to put down a solution that is working well for you but M4 is a terrible choise for website management when there are so many highly capable tool kits that are dedicated to the task. As far as I know, there are no robost toolkits for generating a complete site of HTML page with M4. There's nothing wrong with rolling your own but that's hardly a productive use of one's time these days... For a beginner I would recommend something like the Template Toolkit which is well documentend and has a large enough community around it to help beginners. Cheers, -J	[reply]

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Re^2: Off-Line Content Management Scheme?
by Dogma (Pilgrim) on Jan 05, 2006 at 06:24 UTC

For a beginner I would recommend something like the Template Toolkit which is well documentend and has a large enough community around it to help beginners.

Cheers,

-J

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