Excel data to html (but not wysiwyg)

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TAJ Simmons

Excel XP

For a project I'm doing.....

I was editing html pages by hand...but I was getting bored...and my fingers
where getting smooth....it's all very repetitive....which got me
thinking.....computers are supposed to be very good at repetitive things
(aren't they?).

Then I wondered "if such a thing existed".....

Suppose I have a webpage (html) that I've designed by hand. It shows items 1
thru X.

EXAMPLE HTML.

<!-- item 1 -->
<input type=hidden name="NAME" value="Elephant">
<input type=hidden name=SPARE1 value=elephant>
<input type=hidden name=ID_NUM value="00028">
<a href="na-elephant-00028.htm" onMouseOver="window.status='Enlarge and More
Information'; return true">
<img src="items/elephant00028.GFY" alt="big hefty elephant" width="110"
height="83">Elephant<br></a>

<!-- item 2 -->
<input type=hidden name="NAME" value="Banana">
Repeat the process with new data from next row
etc

What I want is some technique or software that will edit the actually HTML
pages on my PC with data help in something like Excel.

EXCEL DATA (made up)

NAME: Elephant
SPARE1: elephant
ID_NUM: 00028
href: na-elephant-0028.htm
src: elephant00028.GFY
alt: big heft elephant
description: Elephant

NAME: Banana
SPARE1: banana
etc etc


Does such a thing exist?
What I don't want is webpages generated on the fly from a database. I want
static HTML.

It's a sort of "merge" problem or "multiple search and replace" problem

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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