Boilerplate

Boilerplate, on the Web as elsewhere, is a standard collection of text, information, or "page pieces" that can be easily personalized. Just as one can buy a form on which to write a will, there are boilerplate chunks of HTML that can be used on the WWW. For example, companies that provide web pages for a very low set fee, typically use lots of boilerplate into which they enter the specifics for a particular company or individual when they construct their pages.

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An example of a Perl script that reads information form a description database and uses HTML boilerplate to "custom build" HTML documents from the databases contents.

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Print References:

• The HTML TemplateMaster CD-Rom. Erica Sadun and Chris Watkins. Charles River Media, Inc., Rockland, MA 1995. (ISBN 1-886801-06-1)