sht

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sht - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  server-parsed HTML
  sht
  shtml
  SPML
  
     <file format, World-Wide Web> (SPML, SHTML) A kind of HTML
     file containing server-specific, non-standard commands which
     are interpreted by the HTTP server and replaced by standard
     HTML or text before the data is returned to the client.
  
     Different servers use different command syntax and support
     different sets of commands.  The most common example is a
     server-side include command which simply expands to the
     contents of some given file and allows bits of HTML or text to
     be shared between pages for ease of updating.  Other commands
     insert the value of an environment variable or the output of
     a shell command.  These allow pages to be different each
     time they are served without requiring a CGI script.
  
     Some servers distinguish SPML from HTML with a different
     filename extension, others use the execute bit of the file's
     permissions.
  
     (1996-09-29)