WPP - The Web Preprocessor

wpp [POSIX or GNU style options] file ...

WPP is a small perl5 script that allows preprocessing of html files. It's useful for giving an uniform layout to different html pages. It allows you to define variables, which are abbreviations for longer constructs, and include common html fragments.

WPP provides four separate facilities that you can use as you fit: inclusion of templates, variables expansion, conditional generation and macro expansion.

It can be used into cgi scripts for dynamic generation of pages. With less html code inside them you can make more flexible and readable cgi-scripts.

WPP is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). As such, you can use this program free of charge but there is no warranty.

-c FILE, --config=FILE Use FILE as config file (default is 'config').

-D CONST=VAL, -D CONST, --define CONST=VAL, --define CONST Declare a constant CONST with the optional associated value VAL.

-d, --depend Generate dependencies for make.

-F FL, --pre-filter=FL Preprocess input data through FL filters. Each filter should be separated by a pipe ('|') char. Example:

      wpp -F "filter1 | filter2 -opt" in.raw

-f FL, --post-filter=FL Postprocess output data through FL filters. Each filter should be separated by a pipe ('|') char. Example:

      wpp -f "filter1 | filter2 -opt" in.raw

-g, --debug Enable the debugging output of the internal parser.

-h, --help Print the list of command line switches with a short description.

-q, --quiet Run without printing any message and warning.

-v, --version Print the version number of wpp and exit.

-W all, --warn=all Enable printing all warnings.

-W none, --warn=none Disable warnings.

-W LEV, --warn=LEV Set warning level LEV: 0 = none 4 = notice 1 = fatal 5 = message 2 = error 6 = debug 3 = warning (*) 7 = all

    (*) default warning level

-x, --xhtml Enable XHTML compliant output for built-in macros.

- Read raw data from the standard input, html file is written to the standard output.

Marco Lamberto <lm AT sunnyspot DOT org>

http://the.sunnyspot.org/wpp/