Re: Claris HomePage messes up the code

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11017
interpreted = N
texte = In general, there shouldn't be any problem using an HTML editor to create the pages. Some editors encode the square brackets since they look like illegal characters. This can cause problems since WebCatalog looks for the square brackets and doesn't decode every character unless necessary (for speed reasons). Thus you will probably have to go back through and replace the encoded square brackets with the real thing. This shouldn't be too bad: certainly much less work than not using an HTML editor. We're working on ways of dealing with this without slowing the product down.John.>I really like to use Claris HomePage to make the templates (.tmpl). The >problem is that WebCat don't undertand the WebCat tags even if I just open >the file and saves it. When I do this in the ShoppingCart.tmpl the >description and price just shows [description] and [price] instead of the >actual data. Please tell me I'm doing something wrong. I have printed the >code from BBEdit and HomePage. I am now going to see if the code is >different. I have the same problem with PageMill. Is there any workaround? > >--------------------------------------- >Bjorn A. Solstad. Macpoint AS, Trondheim - Norway. >HomePage: http://www.macpoint.no/ John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing ********************************* Pacific Coast Software * Home of the Web's best 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #462 * Catalog and Merchant software San Diego, CA 92128 * http://www.smithmicro.com Phone: 619-675-1106 Fax: 675-0372 ********************************* Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Claris HomePage messes up the code (John Hill 1997)
  2. Claris HomePage messes up the code (Bjørn Are Solstad 1997)
In general, there shouldn't be any problem using an HTML editor to create the pages. Some editors encode the square brackets since they look like illegal characters. This can cause problems since WebCatalog looks for the square brackets and doesn't decode every character unless necessary (for speed reasons). Thus you will probably have to go back through and replace the encoded square brackets with the real thing. This shouldn't be too bad: certainly much less work than not using an HTML editor. We're working on ways of dealing with this without slowing the product down.John.>I really like to use Claris HomePage to make the templates (.tmpl). The >problem is that WebCat don't undertand the WebCat tags even if I just open >the file and saves it. When I do this in the ShoppingCart.tmpl the >description and price just shows [description] and [price] instead of the >actual data. Please tell me I'm doing something wrong. I have printed the >code from BBEdit and HomePage. I am now going to see if the code is >different. I have the same problem with PageMill. Is there any workaround? > >--------------------------------------- >Bjorn A. Solstad. Macpoint AS, Trondheim - Norway. >HomePage: http://www.macpoint.no/ John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing ********************************* Pacific Coast Software * Home of the Web's best 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #462 * Catalog and Merchant software San Diego, CA 92128 * http://www.smithmicro.com Phone: 619-675-1106 Fax: 675-0372 ********************************* John Hill

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