[Sigia-l] Converting static pages in a large intranet site to CM

[Stew Dean]

At 18:36 10/02/2004, Listera wrote:
>"Scott Nelson" wrote:
>
> >> As others have said, there really isn't a way around the manual effort
> >> of this.
> >>
> > Fundamentally true; given that the code generated by Front Page should
> > be consistent (and I know that's a stretch coming from Microsoft
> > software) a text editor's multiple file search and replace features
> > should go a long way towards smoothing this.
>
>Since we still don't know what "converting" specifically means in this case,
>generically speaking, someone with full command of regular expressions
>and/or Perl should be able to automate the vast majority of all manual work
>here. You'd be amazed just how much you can pattern match and transform.
>
>Ziya
>Nullius in Verba

Dreamweaver takes the tech out of the regular expression problem and it 
understands html tags. You can strip properties, strip specific tags, use 
regular expressions, quickly control the extremity of your search and 
replace and generally reduce any site into something that is convertable to 
any given template format. I have used it many times to convert font tag 
based sites into CSS sites and into dreamweaver templates.  I do write a 
lot of perl solutions but no point reproducing the technical work someone 
else has already done.

Stew Dean



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