Re: Parsing HTML

On Monday 24 March 2003 19:17, Ben Sinclair wrote:
> I have main pages that are XMLC compiled HTML files, which contain the UI
> and other things. For branding purposes, I need to wrap these in a custom
> header and footer at runtime. If I really have to, I could make it compile
> HTML files when people change them somehow, but I'd rather not.

You don't have to recompile, at least not with the new XMLC 2.2. Using the 
"deferred parsing" feature of XMLC 2.2, pages are automatically re-parsed on 
the fly whenever the source file changes. SSI includes are resolved by the 
reparsing code (if you switch on SSI support in XMLC, of course) so you can 
use SSI to include your headers and footers at parse time. The only thing you 
have to do manually is check for changes in the inclided files and force a 
reparse if they change because the standard XMLC reparsing factory only keeps 
track of the main HTML source file.

The added advantage of this approach is that you don't have to insert the 
header and footer every time a page is delivered, but only if a page is 
changed or gets swapped out of the template cache. This can be quite a big 
performance benefit on sites with heavy load.

Hope this helps,

Richard
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