hsc

(Version 0.9.7, 15-May-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, test existence of local links and several other things.

About

• What's this all about?
• System- & knownledge-requirements
• The distribution

Features

• Special tags to make life a bit easier
• Check existence of local URIs to avoid dead links
• Absolut URIs to avoid paths like "../../../image/back.gif"
• Macros to create your own shortcuts and templates.
• Expressions as arguments for attributes
• Conditional conversion to make your macros more flexible.
• Replace special characters with its entities
• Get size of images and set attributes WIDTH and HEIGHT
• 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

Usage

• Installation
• Options and swiches - invoking hsc
• Example usage
• Description of messages
• Questions (and maybe some answers)

Stuff

• How to reach the Author and where to get updates
• Copyright and disclaimer
• About the sources
• Known bugs & limitations
• Program history: what has happened so far.
• Future Improvements
• Related tools and further information