Publish-StaticHtmlSite

Create a static HTML site from HTML fragment objects.

Syntax

 Publish-StaticHtmlSite [-InputObject] <Object> [-Template] <String> [-ContentMap] <Hashtable> [-MediaDirectory] <String> [-SiteDirectory] <String>  [<CommonParameters>]

Description

Html fragment objects piped into this function (or passed via the InputObject parameter) are converted into standalone HTML documents and saved to a Html site directory.

The Markdown to HTML document conversion uses default or custom templates with stylesheets and JavaScript resources to render Markdown extensions for:

See New-HtmlTemplate for details.

Parameters

-InputObject <Object>

An object representing an Html fragment. Ideally this is an output object returned by Convert-MarkdownToHTMLFragment, but any object will work provided following properties are present:

RelativePath

A string representing the relative path to the Markdown file with respect to a base (static site) directory. This property is automatically provided by:

Title
The page title.
HtmlFragment
A html fragment to be used as main content of the HTML document.
Parameter Property Value
Required? true
Position? 1
Default value ``
Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue)
Accept wildcard characters? false

-Template <String>

Optional directory containing the html template file md-template.html and its resources which will be used to convert the Html fragments into standalone Html documents. If no template directory is specified, a default factory-installed template is used. For infomations about creating custom templates see New-HTMLTemplate. See Template Customization for customization options.

Parameter Property Value
Required? false
Position? 2
Default value (Join-Path $SCRIPT:moduleDir.FullName 'Template')
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false

-ContentMap <Hashtable>

Placeholder substitution mapping as described in Template Customization.

Following substitution mappings are used by default unless explicitely defined.

Placeholder Description Origin
{{title}} Auto generated page title $inputObject.Title
[title] For backwards compatibility. $inputObject.Title
{{content}} HTML content $inputObject.HtmlFragment
[content] For backwards compatibility. $inputObject.HtmlFragment

For static HTML site projects additional mappings are defined:

Placeholder Description Origin
{{nav}} Navigation bar content Build.json
{{footer}} Page footer content Build.json

For static HTML site projects additional placeholders can be added to the map. See Defining Content Mapping Rules

Parameter Property Value
Required? false
Position? 3
Default value ``
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false

-MediaDirectory <String>

An optional directory containing additional media for the HTML site such as images, videos etc.

Parameter Property Value
Required? false
Position? 4
Default value ``
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false

-SiteDirectory <String>

Directory for the generated HTML files. The Html files will be placed in the same relative location below this directory as related Markdown document has below the input directory. If the site directory does not exist it will be created. If the site directory already exists its files will be retained, but possibly overwitten by generated HTML files.

Parameter Property Value
Required? true
Position? 5
Default value ``
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false

Inputs

An Html Fragment objects having the properties RelativePath,Title, HtmlFragment , and optionally ContentMap. See the description of the InputObject parameter for details

Outputs

File objects [System.IO.FileInfo] of the generated HTML documents.

Examples

EXAMPLE 1

Find-MarkdownFiles '...\Modules\MarkdownToHtml' | Convert-MarkdownToHTMLFragment | Publish-StaticHtmlSite -SiteDirectory 'e:\temp\site'

Generates a static HTML site from the Markdown files in '...\Modules\MarkdownToHtml'. This is a simpler version of the functionality provided by the function Convert-MarkdownToHTML.

The generated Html file objects are returned like so:

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----       15.09.2019     10:03          16395 Convert-MarkdownToHTML.html
-a----       15.09.2019     10:03          14714 Convert-MarkdownToHTMLFragment.html
-a----       15.09.2019     10:03           4612 Find-MarkdownFiles.html
-a----       15.09.2019     10:03           6068 MarkdownToHTML.html
...          ...            ...            ...

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