Variables on web pages

Is there a way to use variables on a web page?

I suppose I mean simple text replacements, such as replacing each occurrence
of the expression, say, "title" with "World Encycopaedia of Insects". Or
replacing "date" with the current date.

Would it mean scripting or programming?

I'd appreciate any pointers you can give me.

Thanks
Richard

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Is there a way to use variables on a web page?

What do you really want to do ?

"Pierre Goiffon" <pgoiffon (AT) nowhere (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Is there a way to use variables on a web page?

What do you really want to do ?

"To use a preprocessor", that's my guess. Or maybe SSI or similar
technique. Whatever the question is, among the imaginable possibilities,
the answer is not in HTML.

(Well, in practice, that is. Nobody prevents you from defining named
constants using <!ENTITY> declarations, by SGML rules; however, even the
HTML 2.0 specifications, a great improvement over its successors, does
not require support to entity declarations - it just says that "HTML user
agents - - may support an internal declaration subset with supplemental
entity, element, and other markup declarations". Moreover, hardly any
browser ever made even a serious attempt at actually supporting HTML as
an SGML application.)

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