hsc

(Version 0.9.8 , 29-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, tests 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 dangling 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
• 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
• Rather easy extandable syntax definition.

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 - the usual legal stuff
• About the sources
• Known bugs & limitations
• Program history - what has happened so far.
• Future Improvements - what might happen
• Related tools and further information