ModPro

ModPro provides the ability to create web pages using modular programming principles.

Modular programming makes programs easier to read, write, debug, and maintain by dividing them into managable pieces.

The benefits of modular programming are: ￭ It makes your code easier to write because individual modules can be independently written and tested ￭ Implementation details are hidden in modules making it easier to read and maintain your code ￭ Individual modules can be reused.

ModPro is much more than another HTML preprocessor that merely allows you to include files and define macros.

Modular Programming Markup Language (MPML) is the name of the language used by ModPro. MPML is an XML based scripting language, like HTML or XSL.

At the most basic level MPML provides support for modules that can be defined and referenced from anywhere. It also provides an inclusion mechanism to insert the contents of one file into another file. This allows you to define module libraries and include them in multiple files.

At a more advanced level MPML provides support for creating custom modules in XSL that are used to implement some custom functionality. A collection of custom modules is called a custom module package, or ModPack. The core ModPro module package XSL file is mpml.xsl.

Requirements:

￭ Java Runtime Envinronment (JRE) version 5 or later