Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id PAA04497; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 15:35:29 -0800 Received: from fully.organic.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA04489; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 15:35:26 -0800 Received: (from brian@localhost) by fully.organic.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA16148; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 22:29:41 GMT Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 14:29:41 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Behlendorf To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com cc: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: #echo and (none)... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, David Robinson wrote: > Maybe instead we should use the existing SGML syntax for entities, i.e. > &{name}; includes the text identified by {name}. Entities could be defined > in the config files, or maybe also in the document itself; > > e.g. > srm.conf/.htaccess: > Entity footer "my footer" > Entity header System "head.shtml" > or xxx.shtml: > > &header; &footer; > > Would output the contents of head.shtml followed by `my footer' So essentially you're asking us to do browser developer's work for them. :) I can't wait until an HTML browser comes along which will understand references - sigh. I guess in the short term, that's an interesting idea. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/