HTML include?

[Man-wai Chang]

Does HTML have an include file feature?

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[Sherm Pendley]

Man-wai Chang <to**********@gmail.comwrites:

Does HTML have an include file feature?

HTML doesn't, but your server probably does - look in its docs for "Server
Side Includes", or SSI.

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[Man-wai Chang]

>

HTML doesn't, but your server probably does - look in its docs for "Server
Side Includes", or SSI.

Too bad the standard doesn't have it.. :)

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[Jukka K. Korpela]

Scripsit Man-wai Chang:

>HTML doesn't, but your server probably does - look in its docs for
"Server Side Includes", or SSI.

Too bad the standard doesn't have it.. :)

The standard (the ISO HTML standard, based on the ISO SGML standard) has it,
and even the "standards" (IETF HTML 2.0 and W3C HTML specifications) have
it. Inclusion is a standard SGML feature, though somewhat esoteric (you
define the included data as an "entity" and use an entity reference).

It's just browsers that refused to implement HTML as an SGML application.

It's common to declare this defect as a virtue and claim that HTML was never
meant to allow inclusion.

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[Man-wai Chang]

It's just browsers that refused to implement HTML as an SGML application.
It's common to declare this defect as a virtue and claim that HTML was
never meant to allow inclusion.

It should be a web server issue, rather a browser...
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[Andy Dingley]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:44:29 +0800, Man-wai Chang
<to**********@gmail.comwrote:

>Too bad the standard doesn't have it.. :)

No, it's a good thng the HTML recommendation doesn't have it.

* It doesn't belong in a document format. The recommendation
represents a "wire format" for the document, not a statement of how it's
produced. There's simply no need to describe it here.

* if it were in the HTML recommendation, it would include all sorts of
details of filesystems, server architecture etc. This would introduce
extra dependencies into the HTML recommendation. It would also be hard
to describe for the many different possible servers.

[dk_sz]

Does HTML have an include file feature?

No, but Server side includes (SSI), PHP, ASP
etc. all have functionality that can do this.

Most webhosts (but not ISPs I suppose)
support one of above.
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[David Dorward]

Man-wai Chang wrote:

>It's just browsers that refused to implement HTML as an SGML application.
It's common to declare this defect as a virtue and claim that HTML was
never meant to allow inclusion.

It should be a web server issue, rather a browser...

Why should a piece of software designed to serve up (among other things)
SGML documents for clients to process perform SGML processing itself?

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