## Features
- Really simple shrine generation
-
- One command: `make`
## Prerequisites
-These things come preinstalled on many platforms :—
-
-- G·N·U Make (run `make --version` to see if it is installed)
+These things come pre·installed on many platforms :—
-- libxslt (run `xsltproc --version` to see if it is installed)
+- G·N·U `make` (run `make --version` to see if it is installed)
+- `xsltproc` (run `xsltproc --version` to see if it is installed)
You will also need to know how to write X·M·L, and how to navigate to a
directory via the command line and run `make`.
elements will be replaced by the page header, content, and footer,
respectively.
-Finally, just run `make` from this directory, and X·H·T·M·L files
+Finally, just run `make` from this directory, and H·T·M·L files
corresponding to your source files will be created in the `public/`
directory (which you can then serve statically from your server).
-## Notes
+## Atom Feeds
-- The created files have a `.xhtml` extension and *need* to be served
- with a `application/xhtml+xml` (or `application/xml`) media type. Not
- all servers know how to serve `.xhtml` files; if this is you, you may
- have better luck with `make XHTMLEXT=xml` (which will produce `.xml`
- files instead).
+Any `.atom` files you provide will automatically be filled out with
+`<id>`s, `<updated>` values, and other necessary information before
+being copied to the destination location. If you wish to use this
+feature, you will need to provide a `BASEIRI` variable when you run
+`make` to allow the X·S·L·T to transform relative links into absolute
+ones.
- - Some free hosting options require that “index” pages have an
- extension of `.html`; these will unfortunately not work. It is
- possible to extend the makefile to generate `index.html` redirects
- to `index.xhtml` with the following code :—
+It is recommended that :—
- ```make
- override redirects := $(patsubst public/%.$(XHTMLEXT),public/%.html,$(indices) $(pages))
+- You do *not* provide your own `<id>`s and rely on the generated ones
+ (which will be an `oai:` URI derived from the file path).
- all: $(redirects) # in addition to the previously declared prerequisites
+- You *do* manually provide `<updated>` times for individual entries
+ (although not the feed as a whole); otherwise every entry will be
+ marked as updated every time the feed is generated.
- $(redirects):
- # You may want a more involved redirect page than this, but it’s an example…
- echo '<!DOCTYPE html><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=./index.xhtml">' > $@
- ```
+- All `<link rel="alternate">` elements in `<entry>` elements use a
+ relative `@href` with a leading slash. This should point to the
+ *final* location of the entry (within, but not including, `public/`).
- This should be considered a last resort, but it can be used to get
- your site working on e·g Neocities.
+There’s an example `feed.atom` provided so you can see what this
+ feature might look like in practice.
+
+## Notes
+
+- The created files have a `.html` extension and need to be served
+ with a `text/html` media type.
- Files at `sources/index.xml` and `sources/index-*.xml` will produce
- output at `public/%.xhtml` (where `%` is the filename).
+ output at `public/%.html` (where `%` is the filename).
- All other files at `sources/*.xml` and `sources/*/*.xml` will produce
- output at `public/%/index.xhtml` (where `%` is the filename and
+ output at `public/%/index.html` (where `%` is the filename and
optional subdirectory). Only one level of subdirectory is supported.
+- For any files at `sources/*.xml` and `sources/*/*.xml`, files in the
+ folder with the same name (minus the `.xml`) will be copied over
+ verbatim.
+
- The transformation doesn’t do any rewriting of links. Make sure you
write them to point to the *final* location of the files, not their
location within the `sources/` directory.