Neil, In looking at your code, I'm a bit confused.
First, why not just specify the included includes as comments? Second, why does your include change the doctype from invocation to invocation? On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 5:17:16 AM UTC-7, Neil Faiman wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2018, at 12:13 AM, Neil Faiman <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > For years, I’ve been using persistent includes (<!— #bbinclude …. >) that > contain plain includes (#bbinclude …). This always works just as I want: > The persistent include body is inserted in the document, and then the > #bbincludes in the inserted text are recursively substituted. > > In other places I’ve used included scripts (persistent includes that > include an AppleScript, Perl, or Swift script that generates he included > text. This also works perfectly. > > But I just tried replacing a persistent include whose body text contains > #bbinclude’s with an included script that generates exactly the same body > text, AND THE NESTED #BBINCLUDE’s AREN’T SUBSTITUTED. > > > In case that was incomprehensible, here’s my old persistent include file, > “Minutes Header": > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html lang="en-US"> > <head> > <title>Wilton ZBA Minutes - #MEETING_DATE#</title> > <meta name="description" content="Wilton, NH ZBA Minutes, #MEETING_DATE#" > /> > #bbinclude "Common Head Elements" > </head> > <body class="minutes"> > #bbinclude "ZBA Letterhead" > #bbinclude "Navigation Bar" > <p class="breadcrumbs"> > <a href="#RELATIVE#index.html">Wilton ZBA</a> > > <a href="./index.html">Minutes</a> > > #MEETING_DATE# > </p> > #bbinclude "Minutes disclaimer" > <h1>#MEETING_DATE#</h1> > > When I include this in a document with > > <!-- #bbinclude "Minutes Header" #MEETING_DATE#="December 11, 1996" --> > <!-- end bbinclude --> > > and update the document, I end up with > > <!-- #bbinclude "Minutes Header" #MEETING_DATE#="December 11, 1996" --> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en-US"> > <head> > <title>Wilton ZBA Minutes - December 11, 1996</title> > <meta name="description" content="Wilton, NH ZBA Minutes, December 11, > 1996" /> > . > . > . > ><li><a href="../search.html" title="Advanced search and search > tips">Search</a></li></ul></div> > <div id="content"> > > <p class="breadcrumbs"> > <a href="../index.html">Wilton ZBA</a> > > <a href="./index.html">Minutes</a> > > December 11, 1996 > </p> > <p class="disclaimer"> > Minutes posted at this web site have not been checked for consistency with > the printed minutes that are available in the Wilton Town Offices. Also, > the minutes posted here are the original, draft minutes, without any > corrections or amendments which may have been adopted at a subsequent ZBA > meeting. If you need the definitive minutes of a ZBA meeting, please obtain > the printed minutes from the <a href="../town_office.html">town offices</a>. > </p> > <h1>December 11, 1996</h1> > <!-- end bbinclude —> > > Now I write a script, "Minutes Header.swift”, and change the persistent > include to > > <!-- #bbinclude "Minutes Header.swift" #SCANNED#="1" --> > <!-- end bbinclude --> > > When I run this script standalone, it writes this to standard output: > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html lang="en-US"> > <head> > <title>Wilton ZBA Minutes — December 11, 1996</title> > <meta name="description" content="Wilton, NH ZBA Minutes, December > 11, 1996" /> > #bbinclude "Common Head Elements" > </head> > <body class="minutes"> > #bbinclude "ZBA Letterhead" > #bbinclude "Navigation Bar" > <p class="breadcrumbs"> > <a href="#RELATIVE#index.html">Wilton ZBA</a> > > <a href="./index.html">Minutes</a> > > December 11, 1996 </p> > #bbinclude "Minutes disclaimer with scanned PDF" > <h1>December 11, 1996</h1> > > But when I update the document, I get > > <!-- #bbinclude "Minutes Header.swift" #SCANNED#="1" --> > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html lang="en-US"> > <head> > <title>Wilton ZBA Minutes — December 11, 1996</title> > <meta name="description" content="Wilton, NH ZBA Minutes, December > 11, 1996" /> > #bbinclude "Common Head Elements" > </head> > <body class="minutes"> > #bbinclude "ZBA Letterhead" > #bbinclude "Navigation Bar" > <p class="breadcrumbs"> > <a href="../index.html">Wilton ZBA</a> > > <a href="./index.html">Minutes</a> > > December 11, 1996 </p> > #bbinclude "Minutes disclaimer with scanned PDF" > <h1>December 11, 1996</h1> > <!-- end bbinclude --> > > I.e., unlike the first example, the nested #bbincludes are not expanded. > > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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