RE: smart tags - an easy solution!

There are many, many editors with a search/replace across files.

UltraEdit, TextPad, Dreamweaver, for example,

Tim



www.ApatheticGenius.com

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Mike Carlson
> Sent: 20 August 2001 17:46
> To: 'Paul Wilson'; 'HWG Techniques'
> Subject: RE: smart tags - an easy solution!
> 
> 
> Allaire Homesite already comes with an extended search and 
> replace like
> that.
> 
> It has come in handy many, many times.
> 
> ************************
> Mike Carlson
> http://www.domitianx.com
> domitianx(at)domitianx.com
> ************************
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org 
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
> On Behalf Of Paul Wilson
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:39 AM
> To: 'HWG Techniques'
> Subject: Re: smart tags - an easy solution!
> 
> 
> > I use the same scenario. The header and footer of every 
> page is built 
> > from an include file. I modify one file and I can change the header 
> > and footer of every page on the entire site.
> 
> I strarted adding the meta tags the hard way.  After about 
> 100 files it
> got _very_ tedious and I though it would take me days and 
> drive me nuts,
> there had to be a better way.
> 
> There is a low tech solution for the rest of us.  I have been using a
> free program called "Search and Replace HTML 98"  from
> http://www.htmlworkshop.com/  for a couple months.  It will 
> go through a
> whole directory making replacements FAST.  The question was how do I
> make it do what I wanted?  It was easy.
> 
> I used SRHTML98 to search for the closing tag "<./TITLE>"  
> and replaced
> them all with:
> 
> <./TITLE>
> <.meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" contents="TRUE">
> 
> I just updated several very large websites in just a few minutes.
> 
> Paul Wilson
> webguroo(at)tampabay.rr.com
> 
> 

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