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 Measure 20 cm --]
Then you run htmlmacros.exe and it expands those comments to
boilerplate that looks like this:
[!-- macro JDisplay Measure 20 cm --]
[!-- generated --]
[span class="metric"]20 cm[/span]
[span class="imperial"](7.87 in)[/span]
[!-- /generated by Measure --]
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
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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