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badldragon

2004-08-04, 7:15 pm

How do I pull text from a document into my page - I remember being able to do
it in flash but its been such a long time!

It just so i dont have to keep updating the html file only update the doc.

Malc

Mad Dog

2004-08-04, 7:15 pm

This sounds like a job for SSI (Server Side Include). Check out the Help
section for details.

MD


badldragon wrote:
> How do I pull text from a document into my page - I remember being
> able to do it in flash but its been such a long time!
>
> It just so i dont have to keep updating the html file only update
> the doc.
>
> Malc



darrel

2004-08-04, 7:15 pm

> It just so i dont have to keep updating the html file only update the
doc.

A DOC as in a Microsoft Word Document?

-Darrel


Mad Dog

2004-08-04, 7:15 pm

If you use a Word .doc it's going to open in the browser as a Word .doc --
if they have Word installed. I hate when that happens and I don't think it's
what you want. Check out the SSI and see if that will do it. You can make a
text file and make it your include on the page, so whenever you want to
change it you just change the include page, not the HTML page.

MD

badldragon wrote:
> yeah a word doc - should I not use that?
>
>
> Ill have a look at the help for SSI see what i can find thanks
>
> Malc
>
>
> q]Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
> the doc.
>
> A DOC as in a Microsoft Word Document?
>
> -Darrel



badldragon

2004-08-04, 7:15 pm

yeah a word doc - should I not use that?


Ill have a look at the help for SSI see what i can find thanks

Malc


q]Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
> It just so i dont have to keep updating the html file only update the

doc.

A DOC as in a Microsoft Word Document?

-Darrel



darrel

2004-08-04, 7:15 pm

> yeah a word doc - should I not use that?

It's really messy. I think you can use something like index server on IIS or
possible asp.net to read through the word doc to pull out the text. But
figuring out the formatting/structure would be a nightmare. Perhaps with
Office's newest version that supposedly is XML based, you might be able to
pull the file in as an XML file and mainpulate it that way.

> Ill have a look at the help for SSI see what i can find thanks


SSI won't work for word documents. Only text files.

-Darrel


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