Including content of one file of HTML in another? (take III, and out)

["Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

Bryan Westbrook observed that: <<....although the change might be
automatically made to all of the pages, you still have to re-upload all of
the changed pages (unless you're editing on the server).  With an include,
you only have to upload the revised version of the include file to change
all of the pages.>>

Interesting. If the includes represent a large chunk of data, that could
provide a very significant performance advantage. But does the "includepage"
feature use standard HTML? If not, it probably requires Microsoft components
on the server to handle the include, and Guy's daughter may not have access
to those components (as he noted in his message). In any event, if you
combine Dreamweaver templates with library items, you accomplish exactly the
same effect: when you make a change to something like a navigation bar
(added as a library item), you need only upload the navigation bar, and all
other pages should call it and display it properly when they're loaded.
Sounds rather like FrontPage's "includepage" function to me!

--Geoff Hart, FERIC, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
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