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Source: Bareis, Dennis (db0@anz.com)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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Hi,

PPWIZARD is a free preprocessor which can handle any text file types but is
most frequently used for HTML and REXX development.  I believe it to be the
most powerful available and yet easy to use, for more details have a look at
ppwizard's homepage at "http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/ppwizard.htm".
This page (and the rest of the site) was built using ppwizard, as was
ppwizard itself and its IPF and HTML documentation.

The main changes that have recently taken place (apart from bug fixes) have
been:

URL checker
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Checks ftp and http URLs.  Works integrated with ppwizard or as standalone
program.  You may wish to download ppwizard just to obtain this program.  It
will ensure that no external links will generate 404's etc.  It will tell
you when pages move.  If you keep all your links in a WPS URL tree then this
program can check these as well. It has many options including the
capability of only testing part of your total links on any one day. To view
it's doco have a look at
"http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/ppwizard/ppwcurl_cmd.htm"

Other features:

* Spell checking capability

* FTPLIKE.H header file which allows you to build html pages of directory
structures with your look and feel (can autocomment based on .DIZ files
etc). You could easily extend to get comments out of a files extended
attributes etc.

* PPWSORT.H header file provides a radical but very powerful alternative
example of how rexx code can be generated. The header allows sorting of 1 to
'x' rexx arrays (ie keep associated data together) using 1 to 'n' keys and
sorting any way you wish.  Other more "traditional" style rexx header files
for ppwizard are available at
"http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/rexxsrc.htm". Even if you don't want
to use ppwizard you may wish to pick up some of the source code.

* NestChk.H header file which provides generic nesting validation support.
This would allow you to ensure that you have always used a close tag for
every open (say for html table tags).

* Values on macro parameters are now optional.

Bye
Dennis



 
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