- From: Marc Salomon <marc@gaia.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 17:20:19 -0800
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
|Can anyone enlighten me on the latest thinking regarding the |interplay of auto-generated HTML and HTML authoring tools? This really asks two questions: first, how can I integrate contextually-variant content (determined by the world of possible requests) with commercial WISIWYG authoring tools, which I cannot answer; second, the one Paul addressed, how can I create HTML templates that get "filled-in" in the right place with the right stuff at the right time. The only thing I can add to Paul's comments is to ask: "Wither <OBJECT>?" OBJECT was a proposed [1] tag that would allow for HTML to be integrated into a container document much in the same way that IMG provides a feature for inlined images. This document has lapsed for almost a year, so make of that what you will. Its possible that XML will allow for this kind of functionality, but deployment of that doesn't seem imminent. Until we get something like OBJECT or SGML compliance on the web client, I am working on a DMS that uses a combination of SGML tools (James Clark's heavy but compliant SP package [2]), a custom script driven by plain-old make(1) to pre-cook on the server-side. It basically determines which standard, DMS-specific entities (header, footer, ...) occur in an HTML-like template with the script and creates an SGML file with the entity values resolved and declared in the prologue. Finally, sgmlnorm is run on that to produce a servable HTML file. -marc [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-object.html [2] http://www.jclark.com/ --
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