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Here is a general outline of the page to be generated.
A DOCTYPE identifier for XHTML
1.1. Although the existing PyStyler web uses HTML,
we want to move toward XHTML, and there's no reason
not to use it for generated pages.
Also, the validator at the W3C Markup
Validation Service requires a
DOCTYPE identifier before it will
rate the page as valid.
A head element containing:
The page's title element.
A link to the standard TCC stylesheet at /tcc/style.css on the server.
The top navigational bar, a set of
top navigational links. This must
fit on a single line, with the links separated by the
string " / ".
Each link has a short name
consisting of a generic word or phrase such as
“Next” or “Site map”. The
word or phrase always appears, even if it is not a link.
Thus the layout of the top nav bar is static over the
whole site.
The formal page header, formatted as a one-row, two-column table with the page title on the left and the TCC logo graphic on the right.
The page body, followed by a horizontal rule (hr element).
A set of bottom navigational links. Each appears on a separate line, and the entire line is omitted if that link points nowhere.
Each bottom nav link consists of three parts:
A boldfaced generic link type, which will be the same as that link in the top nav link, e.g., “Next”, followed by a colon and space.
One or more destination links, each of which uses the page title (or a close approximation) as its link text. If there are multiple links, they are separated by semicolons.
Another horizontal rule, followed by the colophon:
The “author credit”, which for dynamic pages will credit not a human author, but the script that wrote the page.
The date and time when the page was generated.
The URL of the page, if known.