update-iafa-indices was designed to do some of the tasks above:
Process a tree of files
Validates the files versus the IAFA templates
Add new files
Interpret new elements
Sorts templates into a user-definable order
Allow per-directory configuration of process
iafa-to-others creates HTML, gopher and plain text indices from the IAFA Templates.
Copyright ©1995 Dave Beckett, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.