[WM] server-side includes

[Justin Mason]

Alan Jackson said:

> Well I've tried to do the shtml thing, and the problem I ran into is
> that I tried to set it up as metadata, but it didn't seem to work, I couldn't
> ever get it to recognize the suffix.

OK -- see below.   I see what you mean, based on the code example.

> I tried the perl chmod thing too, but the timing was wrong. The perl got
> run before the final files were renamed, so it only worked if the file
> didn't get update d.

oops -- must see about this.  Good point, I hadn't thought of that...
but anyway, let's see if the .shtml idea can work, first.


I would try using

  <for name="pagename" values="${txtfiles}">
  	<out file="${pagename}.$[${pagename}.suffix]" name="${pagename}">
                               ^^ ***NOTE***       ^
        [etc.]

(note the use of $[..] to handle metadata.  I haven't tried it, but it
_may_ work ;)   Using ${...} to refer to metadata is not good and often
breaks.

A more "low-tech" way to do it, if that doesn't work, is to use a
<contentstable> as well as a <metatable>, and define a table of items
named like"pagename.suffix" in there -- but that's a bit kludgy :(

--j.