Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator

Re:Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator by karurosu on Friday November 03, 2023 @02:59PM (#38133367)

I didn't realize this was so common. In my crazy days I wrote a SSG using only XSLT, so you wrote a big xml with the content and it would output a full site ready to upload.

It needed a specific XSLT processor as most couldn't generate individual files, but it was nice that it worked with off the shelf software, so technically I didn't write a single line of code.

(XSLT is madness, don't attempt)

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Re:Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator by schemescape on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:50PM (#38135451)

I also did this, except the XML file itself was generated from a file system tree.

XSL did eventually add multiple outputs, but yeah: do not attempt :)

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