Re: Tag syntax - multiple ways?

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>]

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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 mikeh@minivend.com wrote:

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> Quoting Thompson-Jordan (thompson-jordan@mci2000.com):
> > 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.
> 
> It is pretty confusing, I agree; which is why if I ever do a
> MiniVend 4.0 I will remove the "old syntax" business entirely.

In case Mike Heins will tell us, when he will have finished MiniVend 4.0,
that he will do "the next great thingy" whenever and if he will do 
a MiniVend 5.0, I ask publicly all the MiniVend users and readers of the
list to donate some dollars to pay the best doctor in town to cure his
"feeping creaturitis".  :-)

Thanks for clearing things up though !

Birgitt Funk

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