Developer Information

The sitefile (usually named "site.htm") is very simple being itself just a true html file - you can use a normal html browser to have a look and you should see the full decoration where only the "body area" is left empty.

The actual shell scripts works in two passes generating cache files containing the meta information about each file. That file is used to create sed scripts that will be doing the actual transformation on the ~head~ file (site.htm) and the ~body~ file (the input *.htm).

While the results might look astonishingly as if made by a big iron "sophisticated" tool it turns out that the actual shell script "mksite.sh" is still very small - almost tiny compared to other source files. It is easy to ship along with your projects, perhaps in a slightly modified variant.