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using the C Preprocessor as an HTML templating engine

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using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine

example:

header.html

    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 100 100%22><text y=%22.9em%22 font-size=%2290%22>📜</text></svg>">
        <title>ced.quest ⚔️ </title>
        <style>
        </style>
    </head>

index.template.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
#include "header.html"

    <body>
        <p> hi ben! </p>
    </body>
</html>

command:

cpp -P index.template.html index.html

note: cpp is “C Preprocessor,” comes with GCC installs.

-P inhibits the output of linemarkers, which may be useful for debugging complicated macros. (please do not make complicated macros)

it is noted here that cl \P \EP works to accomplish this with MSVC.

index.html (output)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 100 100%22><text y=%22.9em%22 font-size=%2290%22>📜</text></svg>">
        <title>ced.quest ⚔️ </title>
        <style>
        </style>
    </head>


    <body>
        <p> hi ben! </p>
    </body>
</html>