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

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Ed LaFrance (edl@newmediaems.com):
> 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
> 

No, only the tag itself is supposed to be put that way, and it must
be surrounding just the tag with precisely <!--[tag param=value param=value]-->

Try this for both a matching and non-matching search string:

<!--[loop search="se=hammer"]-->
<!--[on-match]-->
<table>
<tr>
	<th>SKU</th>
	<th>Description</th>
	<th>Price</th>
</tr>
<!--[/on-match]-->
<!--[list]-->
<tr>
	<td>[loop-code]</td>
	<td>[loop-description]</td>
	<td>[loop-price]</td>
</tr>
<!--[/list]-->
<!--[on-match]-->
</table>
<!--[/on-match]-->
<!--[/loop]-->

Presumably it should work out both for editing and display. FrontPage,
though, is notorious for relocating comments so it might not. DreamWeaver
allows you to surround such an area with <NOTOUCH> </NOTOUCH>, which
prevents the comments from being munged and relocated, and I heard a rumor
FrontPage had something equivalent.

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