MML Tags ... Re: [ic] Can you edit templates with a WYSIWYG editor?

[Ed LaFrance]

At 10:48 AM 04/04/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Quoting Young Family (ary@communicationfactory.com):
> > > but It'll be much more complicated as no
> > > program can understand/parse
> > > the IC MML tags yet.
> >
> > This is a feature that may be very useful for a new release of Interchange,
> > the ability to use alternate tag syntax.
> >
> > For example in PHP the normal tags are  <?PHP  Your php code here <?>. This
> > makes it impossible to edit PHP pages using Front Page.
> >
> > BUT... PHP has an option called 'USE_ASP_TAGS=YES'   where I can use the
> > alternative syntax <% your php code here %> which makes Front Page think it
> > is dealing with an ASP page. I can now happily use FrontPage and/or other
> > ASP-friendly editors, and not have the editor kill my code.  I still must
> > call the page mypage.php using the php suffix in order to get Apache to
> > invoke the PHP scripting language.
>
>Actually, you can use <!--[tag ...]--> and it will work.

...but that won't help if the tag produces output that needs to be rendered 
in the browser.  I guess one thing you could do is flag your HTML comments:

         <!--IML [tag ...] IML-->

Then you could strip them out later with some command-line perl:

perl -i -p -e 's/<!--IML//g' *.html
perl -i -p -e 's/IML-->//g' *.html

- Ed L.


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