RE: Tag syntax - multiple ways?

[Thompson-Jordan <thompson-jordan@mci2000.com>]

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Yes. It's the old syntax and the newer syntax. You also seem to be able to
use <A MV="page example" HREF="example.html"> as well. From what I can tell,
the new syntax allows you to do things like [page href="[value mv_somevar]"]
which don't work in the old syntax. This might also explain why there are
often several ways mentioned in the documentation to seperate parameters
(using '/', '&', newline, etc). The third syntax I mentioned seems to have
been created so you can use programs like FrontPage without having them
destroy the Minivend tags.

There appears to be no real recommendation on which syntax to use. Perhaps
the old syntax parses the fastest, so it is still preferable unless you need
the advantages that the other syntaxes offer. I think some of the confusion
is that the documentation uses weird terms like "named attributes" and "HTML
example" instead of "old syntax," "new syntax" and "HTML syntax" (or
"fastest," "most flexible," "editor proof"). It still confuses me and I am
often tempted to do a search and replace on the Documentation file. Perhaps
someone else can give a more definitive answer.

Christopher Thompson


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> To make my question as simple as possible, does [page example] mean
> the same thing as [page href="example"]?
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> ---Kris Kelley
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