Posted by Len Philpot on 12/31/05 15:57

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<e1jcr1t9tnfa8i7crobm2rljnohl2uslbn@news.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie>,
invalid@invalid.invalid says...

> >And for the xth time, I don't have a database, preprocessor, SSI,
> >scripting nor anything else available to me *at my ISP* (regardless of
> >whatever I might install here locally).
>
> All three mentioned solutions do not require any ISP support, they
> work/run locally as per the constraint you previously stated.

As I stated in my reply to Greg N. <yodel_dodel@yahoo.com>", I
misunderstood you to be referring to something else. I've Googled for
HTML preprocessors and came across a few.

"Orb" looked appropriate for what I need, but I only found C++ source
(other than a DOS binary). A quick attempt late last night was unable to
get it to build on my platform here at home (Win32, using Dev-C++, DMC
or VC++ 2003).

I downloaded "PPWizard", which looked promising until I ran it... It's
coded in REXX and is so slow as to be unusable. This is not a
perjorative, just accurate in my case unless there's another way to use
it. I work in an 'edit/save/refresh_browser' cycle, which would now need
to be 'edit/save/pre-process/refresh_browser' whenever I want to see
what I've done. As a test, PPWizard took almost 30 seconds to process
only 112 lines of HTML with no substitutions or changes at all. Having
to wait that long just to see the effect of a (minor) code change is
unrealistic.

There's one other one that's a Perl package I'll give a shot today.
Maybe it will be faster. Ideally I'd like something I can wrap in a
script or batch file to be called from my editor.
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