Some static site generation ideas based on jekyll, blosxom, and something from 1997 I forget the name of, that did all kinds of crazy stuff.

usage

$ cat <<EOF > sample.txt
> title: Sample!
>
> = {{ title }} =
> EOF
$ yaml-assemble sample.txt | mustache | creole2html
<h1>Sample!</h1>

yaml-assemble

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    echo "Usage: yaml-assemble <input-file-name>"
    exit -1
fi

echo ---
(
    cat front.yaml ;
    sed -e '/^$/,$d' "$1" ;
) | yaml-merge
echo ---

sed -e '0,/^$/d' "$1"

yaml-merge

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import fileinput
import yaml

data = ''
for line in fileinput.input():
    data += line;

print(yaml.dump(yaml.load(data), default_flow_style=False).strip())

yaml-single

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import yaml

key = sys.argv[1]
value = sys.argv[2]
if value == '-':
    value = sys.stdin.read()

data = {}
data[key] = value.strip()

print(yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False).strip())