- From: Eric Blossom <eric@neomorphic.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:39:33 -0700
- To: html-tidy@w3.org, Steve Chervitz <steve@neomorphic.com>
Here's a sed script that is self inverting. #!/usr/bin/sed -f s/<span class="tango">\([^<]*\)<\/span>/<@\1>/g;t s/<@\([^>]*\)>/<span class="tango">\1<\/span>/g Eric Blossom wrote: > Rick Jelliffe has been asking for such a feature in greater generality. > Until it is put in, may I suggest a work around? > > Using Perl, AWK, or even (God forbid) sed, make two filters. > The first to convert your (Tango's) processing instructions into <span> > tags. > e.g. <@include file> becomes <span class="tango">include file</span> > The second script should invert this process. Wrapping tidy in these > scripts should get you where you want to go today. > > Bill Sowers wrote: > > > Dave, > > > > I discovered HTML-Kit at build 242 and would really like to use the Tidy > > > > tool more extensively but I need the ability to somehow tell Tidy to > > ignore certain character strings. > > > > In my world, I use an IDE called Tango (www.pervasive.com) to develop > > applications that connect databases to users via html pages and forms. > > Tango is a drag-and-drop development tool that generates the html code. > > For example, Tango has a tag <@include> that allows me to insert text > > files into the > > Tango file so at run time the Tango server sees the included file as > > part of the Tango file. > > > > I like to use Tidy to clean up and verfiy the html generated by Tango. > > Unfortunately, when I run the Tango generated code through build 242 I > > get a warning and nothing appears in the output section. I have to > > remove the <@include> tags to get output. > > > > In build 248 no warning is generated (good) but it converts the '<' and > > '>' marks to '<' and '>' respectively. This is not what I need. > > > > Similarly, we use a product called NetCloak (www.maxum.com). This > > product acts in a manner similar to server-side includes. You put into > > your html code the NetCloak command and, at the time of serving up, > > NetCloak makes the appropriate subsitution. For example, <insert_time> > > will insert a time (depending upon the parameters you choose). The > > point is, in my environment, these character strings do something > > useful, but they are not 'valid' html. > > > > To me these are useful and valid codes. I want the ability to add > > certain character strings to Tidy and have it ignore that character > > string when it finds it in a file it is examining. It should do nothing > > > > to it. No changes. Just leave it alone. > > > > Perhaps I have missed a setting, if so, please tell me. Otherwise, > > please consider adding this capability to a near-time build (of course I > > > > want it yesterday :^) ). > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bill Sowers > > sowersb@baxter.com > > -- > Eric -- Eric
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