Re: Automatic [URL]ing by the webdna engine

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2003

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texte = NO NO NO!!!!This would slow down the WebDNA parser by adding another complex code parsing pass, and it would break hundreds if not thousands of pages I have written!See my reply on the original "Re: [URL] and [showif] or [hideif] comparisons" subject for my full treatise, but take this simple example of something I do frequently:[if ("[exact]"="T")][then][text]tSearch=eqSKUdata=[url][var1][/url][/text][/then][else][text]tSearch=bwSKUdata=[url][var1][/url][/text][/else][/if][search db=product.db&[tSearch]]...If WebDNA automatically inserted [url]s around my [tSearch] variable, it would destroy my search.- brianOn Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:06 PM, Kenneth Grome wrote:>> Yes. So would it slow everything down enormously if the showif and >> hideif>> did it automatically?>> URL is not done automatically anywhere. If this feature were > implemented, the webdna engine would have to be rewritten so that it > would dynamically insert these tags into our code before that code is > processed. I assume that something like this would have to be > implemented:::>> 1- read the original webdna code into RAM> 2- scan that code to identify the proper locations for dynamic url tag > insertion> 3- insert [url] and [/url] tags into the properly identified locations> 4- interpret the resulting code and return the results>> If the engine were rewritten to perform this task for showifs and > hideif's, it should *also* be made to similarly url the values in > every append, replace and delete context -- as well as url everything > else that should be urled in order to make webdna work properly.>> Rewriting the webdna engine like this would probably be a difficult > task ... but if it were done, it would make our work as webdna > programmers *much* faster and easier!>> It seems to me that an improvement like this would be appreciated by > EVERYONE (instead of just a handful of webdna programmers with > specific needs) assuming that SMSI make it work properly of course. > And I think that if it were implemented, we should also be given a new > pref that will let us turn it on and/or off ourselves.>> What do you guys thing? Is this a feature that SMSI should consider > placing at (or near) the top of their list of improvements for the > next release?> -- >> Sincerely,> Kenneth Grome> -------------------------------------------------------------> Outsource your WebDNA programming for $18 an hour or less!> ------------------------------------------------------------->-- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software -- http://www.brainscansoftware.com ---------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Automatic [URL]ing by the webdna engine ( Alain Russell 2003)
Re: Automatic [URL]ing by the webdna engine ( "Dan Strong" 2003)
Re: Automatic [URL]ing by the webdna engine ( Donovan Brooke 2003)
Re: Automatic [URL]ing by the webdna engine ( Brian Fries 2003)
Automatic [URL]ing by the webdna engine ( Kenneth Grome 2003)

NO NO NO!!!!This would slow down the WebDNA parser by adding another complex code parsing pass, and it would break hundreds if not thousands of pages I have written!See my reply on the original "Re: [url] and [showif] or [hideif] comparisons" subject for my full treatise, but take this simple example of something I do frequently:[if ("[exact]"="T")][then][text]tSearch=eqSKUdata=[url][var1][/url][/text][/then][else][text]tSearch=bwSKUdata=[url][var1][/url][/text][/else][/if][search db=product.db&[tSearch]]...If WebDNA automatically inserted [url]s around my [tSearch] variable, it would destroy my search.- brianOn Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:06 PM, Kenneth Grome wrote:>> Yes. So would it slow everything down enormously if the showif and >> hideif>> did it automatically?>> URL is not done automatically anywhere. If this feature were > implemented, the webdna engine would have to be rewritten so that it > would dynamically insert these tags into our code before that code is > processed. I assume that something like this would have to be > implemented:::>> 1- read the original webdna code into RAM> 2- scan that code to identify the proper locations for dynamic url tag > insertion> 3- insert [url] and [/url] tags into the properly identified locations> 4- interpret the resulting code and return the results>> If the engine were rewritten to perform this task for showifs and > hideif's, it should *also* be made to similarly url the values in > every append, replace and delete context -- as well as url everything > else that should be urled in order to make webdna work properly.>> Rewriting the webdna engine like this would probably be a difficult > task ... but if it were done, it would make our work as webdna > programmers *much* faster and easier!>> It seems to me that an improvement like this would be appreciated by > EVERYONE (instead of just a handful of webdna programmers with > specific needs) assuming that SMSI make it work properly of course. > And I think that if it were implemented, we should also be given a new > pref that will let us turn it on and/or off ourselves.>> What do you guys thing? Is this a feature that SMSI should consider > placing at (or near) the top of their list of improvements for the > next release?> -- >> Sincerely,> Kenneth Grome> -------------------------------------------------------------> Outsource your WebDNA programming for $18 an hour or less!> ------------------------------------------------------------->-- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software -- http://www.brainscansoftware.com ---------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Brian Fries

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