[WM] accessing meta data from perl

John Jones jj at asu.edu
Sun Sep 11 03:31:41 IST 2005


Hi,

I have been trying to convert a site to use webmake.  It looked like a 
good option since I could have a single webmake file which accesses a 
single template file, and then put the content for each page in a 
separate file.

The content is more involved than just a title and part of the body.  It 
looked like webmake would be able to do what I want if I set various 
things through metadata tags with names I made up.  Now, if I set 
metadata with names like special1, special2, special3, ... then to 
handle it in the template file, I thought I could use the perl construct 
to process it.

The examples directory shows how you can fetch a list of content names 
and then work with them in a perl section.  My question is, can I do 
something similar with metadata?  In particular, I would like a perl 
section in a template to be able to determine what metadata values are 
defined, and then access their values.

John



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