User Guide

Adding a translated attribute to a tag 341

A simple attribute translator example

To better understand attribute translation, it’s helpful to look at an example. The following

translator is Pound Conditional (Poco) markup, a syntax that’s somewhat similar to ASP or PHP.

The first step in making this translator work properly is to create a

tagspec tag for Poco markup,

which prevents Dreamweaver from parsing the untranslated Poco statements.

The following example shows the

tagspec for Poco markup:

<tagspec tag_name="poco" start_string="<#" end_string="#>"

detect_in_attribute="true" icon="poco.gif" icon_width="17"

icon_height="15"></tagspec>

The poco.xml file that contains this tagspec is stored in the Configuration/ThirdPartyTags folder,

along with the icon for Poco tags.

<html>

<head>

<title>Conditional Translator</title>

/*************************************************************

* This translator handles the following statement syntaxes: *

* <# if (condition) then foo else bar #> *

* <# if (condition) then att="foo" else att="bar" #> *

* <# if (condition) then att1="foo" att2="jinkies" *

* att3="jeepers" else att1="bar" att2="zoinks" #> *

* *

* It does not handle statements with no else clause. *

*************************************************************/

var count = 1;

function translateMarkup(docNameStr, siteRootStr, inStr){

var count = 1;

// Counter to ensure unique mmTranslatedValues

var outStr = inStr;

// String that will be manipulated

var spacer = "";

// String to manage space between encoded attributes

var start = inStr.indexOf('<# if'); // 1st instance of Pound Conditional code

// Declared but not initalized. //

var attAndValue;