Copyright (C) 2003 Max Neunhoeffer, Lehrstuhl D fuer Mathematik, RWTH Aachen
This software is protected under the GNU General Public License (see the file "GPL.txt" in die main distribution directory for details).
The mixer is little Max's version of a "Content Management System". The goal is to help the user to maintain a web site consisting of a hierarchy of web pages in a consistent way. Repeating parts of these pages should each be stored and maintained in a single place and an easily understandable procedure should make the final pages from the input the user enters.
For each page this procedure basically pastes together various files from different places in a well-defined way and replaces certain elements by other stuff. Things like navigation tools for the visitors of the site are generated automatically from available data.
The main design principles are:
- SIMPLICITY,
- well-definedness,
- good documentation,
- the use of standard web technology (XML, XHTML, style sheets).
For installation instructions see the manual in the distribution.
Short version: untar, make, link to "mixer.py" from /usr/local/bin Prerequisites: Python version >= 2.2
Note: This software includes the RXP parser by Richard Tobin and Python bindings "pyRXP.c" by ReportLab Inc.