Dreamweaver - can you batch apply templates?

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can you batch apply templates?

deltadada

2005-01-18, 11:19 pm

I want to rip out the top and bottom of about 800 html files in my site and
replace them with SSIs. I was thinking templates might be a way to accomplish
this, but I can't figure a way to automatically attach template to multiple
existing files.

Any ideas?

Murray *TMM*

2005-01-18, 11:19 pm

Nope - there is not a way to batch apply templates. And it's a good thing -
since applying a template to a page with existing content is messy. But if
it's a piece of code that will be replaced with an SSI, then use a sitewide
Find and Replace (after making a backup of the site) to find the code, and
replace it with the include link.

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"deltadada" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I want to rip out the top and bottom of about 800 html files in my site and
> replace them with SSIs. I was thinking templates might be a way to
> accomplish
> this, but I can't figure a way to automatically attach template to
> multiple
> existing files.
>
> Any ideas?
>

Alexandro Colorado

2005-01-18, 11:19 pm

The way I would go with this is using the rather dangerous and
"backup-before-doing this" find and replace across the site.

Then again you should be proficient on regular expression and like I said,
make a zip of the site before doing this.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:10:03 +0000 (UTC), deltadada
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> I want to rip out the top and bottom of about 800 html files in my site
> and
> replace them with SSIs. I was thinking templates might be a way to
> accomplish
> this, but I can't figure a way to automatically attach template to
> multiple
> existing files.
>
> Any ideas?
>

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Alan

2005-01-18, 11:19 pm

i wouldn't mess with templates for this-

What may be possible is just a find and replace, finding the desired chunk
of code. If the chunk is identical in all pages, not difficult. If the
chunk varies, will have to try and craft a regular expression.

Safest would be manually opening the pages- it would take hours though and
be a grinding repetitive thing

> I want to rip out the top and bottom of about 800 html files in my site and
> replace them with SSIs. I was thinking templates might be a way to accomplish
> this, but I can't figure a way to automatically attach template to multiple
> existing files.
>
> Any ideas?
>