About

If you read this, it's quite likely that you tried to design a HTML-page. And you probably found out that HTML is a very clumsy thing: No macros, no include files and several other features lacking.

And what can you do after your page is ready? View it with a browser and test-click all links?

Pfuahahaha! Most browser are designed to handle as many errors as possible and display a readable page, but don't mention your errors! And link-testing is a very stupid task...

Of course, there exist several tools: You can use a C-preprocessor to define macros and include files, use WebLint as a syntax-checker and run a link-test-tool on your page.

Anyway, hsc does all this: it performs a (small) syntax check, tests your (local) links and provides a very HTML-like way to define macros. And much more..

hsc simply acts like a preprocessor: You call it with a "extended" HTML-source (I call it HSC-source) containig special commands hsc interprets and produces a pure HTML-output as object file. The output file can be viewed with a W3-browser.

Thomas Aglassinger ( agi@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at ), 09-Oct-1995, 10:57