WebMake: Documentation: The <media> Tag

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# The <media> Tag WebMake allows you to refer to files and web pages symbolically, separating the site layout from the URL structure, and avoiding later problems with dangling links when a page's URL is changed. This is done using $(url_refs). This works well for content items defined in WebMake, such as output files defined using the <out> tag. However it is not handy when dealing with a images or other files that are not generated using WebMake. Therefore media files and external, non-WebMake files can be searched for using the <media> tag, which allows you to search a data source (directory, etc.) for a pattern. The attributes supported are listed on the data source page. Note that data sources which do not map to files in a filesystem, or other methods accessible to a web browser browsing your site, do not make sense for the <media> tag; so, for example, the svfile: protocol is not supported, as a web browser cannot load an image from a CSV file. (yet.) As a result, currently only one data source protocol can be used with the <media> tag, namely file:. # Example
      <media src="file:images" name=".../*.gif" />
      <media src="file:images" name=".../*.jpg" />

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