Not with HTML, but with SGML. I just finished a crash project that involved inserting tags into a bunch of new documents and in some cases changing the order of tags in legacy documents to match a new DTD (document type definition). (Camera rolling, close up on smiling customer..) "Thanks to XyWrite's amazing language, XPL, I was able to write a macro at three in the morning to search for text within certain SGML tags, move that text to another SGML tag, delete all the stuff between the old tags, rename the remaining tags, and save the file using TYF and a modified ascii.prn print file. My print file also inserted appropriate tags for bold, italic and hotlinks (from MD+UL to MD-UL). Plus I automated the process down to two keystrokes: one to open the file from the directory listing, another to run the program. Once I was rolling I changed all 250 documents in an hour. My fingers hurt at the end, though." Kidding aside, I also wrote a macro to check for balanced tags (lots of BX ch/t ||
| Q2, then grabbing VA$WC to compare with the count from
) and another that pulls out all cross-reference links an logs them to a file. X-refs were the trickiest thing in my project and this little macro saved me hours of SGML parser headaches. Doug Beeson EDI World Institute Montreal, Quebec [Canada] <== we'll see on Oct. 30 whether this stays. beesond@xxxxxxxx --------- From: nsivin To: xywrite Subject: HTML Date: October 15, 1995 21:43 Does anyone has experience with using XyWrite for HTML markup that they'd like to share? Jack Shafer