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<WEBPAGE chapter="hsc - " title="About"
PREV="index.html" NEXT="require.html">
<P>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.</P>
<P>And what can you do after your page is ready? View it with a
browser and test-click all links?</P>
<P>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...</P>
<P>Of course, there exist several tools: You can use a C-preprocessor to
define macros and include files, use <WebLint> as a syntax-checker,
replace your special characters with <KBD>recode</KBD>
and run a link-test-tool on your page.</P>
<P>So, after installing several Tools (and compilers and interpreters),
you are ready to go... and can start five programs after a simple
change to one of your pages.</P>
<P>(Note: People who use the C-Preprocessor are easy to identify
by the stupid date format of <CODE>__DATE__</CODE>: Who else writes
<CODE>Feb 23 1995</CODE> on purpose?)</P>
<P>So <hsc> tries to summarize the functionality of all these tools
in one program: it performs a (small) syntax check,
tests your (local) links, replaces special characters by their
entities and provides a very HTML-like way to
define macros.</P>
<P>Additionally, it supports several features you probably won't
find in some other tools, like absolute URIs and stripping useless
white-spaces.</P>
<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.<P>
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