HTML Static Macros

A generic framework for writing static macros in Java to generate elaborate boilerplate in HTML text files on the desktop without requiring any server side coding. It could also be used to expand macros in any text files.

The basic idea is this. You embed magic comments in your HTML that look like something like this (with angle brackets shown here as [].

[!-- macro Dim 20 cm --]

Then you run htmlmacros.exe and it expands those comments to

boilerplate that looks like this:

[!-- macro Dim 20 cm --]

[!-- generated --]

[span class="metric"]20 cm[/span]

[span class="imperial"](7.87 in)[/span]

[!-- /generated by Dim --]

and renders colourised for your viewers like this:

20 cm (7.87 in)

Some of the 100 odd Macros that already exist include:

Age Calculate Age of something in years/months/days

AllPosters affiliate link to AllPosters.com

Amazon link to non-book product at Amazon

Art link to art.com poster

Audio link to audio file

BestBrowsers describe recommended browsers

Book links to sell a book at various bookstores

CurrCon show currency in multiple countries

DailySpecial random link to take a change page on the website changed daily.

Degrees show both Fahrenheit/Celsius

Dim metric/English width x height x depth

DVD link to DVD stores

FileSize insert the current size of a local file

Foot footer with google and public service ads.

Head generic header, there are also many special purpose variants.

Image display an png, jpg, gif

RSS generate RSS feeds in HTML and XML

Include include boilerplate, possibly containing embedded macros

J2EE macro: link to Sun's J2EE docs

JDisplay display pretty colourised code listing

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