Software:Website Meta Language

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Website Meta Language
Developer(s)Ralf S. Engelschall, Denis Barbier, Shlomi Fish
Stable release
2.24.0 / September 8, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-09-08)
Written inC, Perl
Operating systemUnix
Available inEnglish
TypeWeb template system
LicenseGNU General Public License v2
Websitegithub.com/thewml/website-meta-language

Website Meta Language (WML[1]) and its associated command wmk[2] are together a free and extensible web designer's off-line HTML generation toolkit for Unix, distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL v2). It works as an off-line content management system (aka a static site generator). It is written in ANSI C and Perl 5, built via a CMake based source tree and runs out-of-the-box on all major Unix derivates.

WML consists of a control frontend driving up to nine backends in a sequential pass-oriented filtering scheme. Each backend provides one particular core language. WML additionally ships with a set of include files which provide some higher-level features.

WML's nine backends are:

  • Pass 1: Source Reading and Include File Expansion (ipp)
  • Pass 2: HTML Macro Construct Expansion (mp4h)
  • Pass 3: Perl 5 Programming Construct Expansion (eperl)
  • Pass 4: M4 Macro Construct Expansion (gm4)
  • Pass 5: Diversion Filter (divert)
  • Pass 6: Character and String Substitution (asubst)
  • Pass 7: HTML Fixup (htmlfix)
  • Pass 8: Line Stripping and Output Fixup (htmlstrip)
  • Pass 9: Output Splitting and Final Writing (slice)

See also

  • Website template
  • Haml

References

  1. "Using WML". debian.org. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161010001452/http://www.debian.org/devel/website/using_wml. Retrieved 30 October 2016. 
  2. "WMK manpage". manpages.ubuntu.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084509/http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/wmk.1.html. Retrieved 30 October 2016. 

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