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Take a look at the small print
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hsc

(Version 0.9.10 , 30-Sep-1996)

This is the documentation to hsc, a developer tool for html-projects. It acts as a preprocessors and supports include files, macros, expressions, conditionals, replaces special characters, performs a structure check, tests existence of local links and several other things.

About

• What's this all about?
• Copyright and disclaimer - the usual legal stuff
• Requirements - what to own and know
• Archive contents - things coming along
• Changes - what's new with this release

Usage

• Installation - where to put the whole damn thing
• Invoking hsc - Options and swiches
• Example usage - how it is supposed to work
• Messages - shit happens
• Questions (and maybe some answers)

Features

• Special tags to make life a bit easier
• Check existence of local URIs to avoid dangling links
• Absolut URIs to avoid paths like "../../../image/back.gif"
• Replace special characters by their entities
• Get size of images and set attributes WIDTH and HEIGHT
• Special attributes to access various information
• Strip specific elements (comments, redundant linefeeds and white-spaces, unneeded tags, tags with external references)
• Structure and syntax check to avoid surprises with different browsers

Advanced topics

• Macros - create your own shortcuts and templates.
• Expressions - there's more to life than strings
• Conditionals - what if..?
• Syntax definition - what to do if html-version-17.3 is out
• Execute shell-commands - poor man's pseudo-CGI
• Project management - I'll make ya

Stuff

• Updates - where to get them and how to reach the author
• About the sources
• Known bugs & limitations
• Future Improvements - what might happen
• Related tools and further information