[Templates] template toolkit and html tidy

[Sean Allen]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Jonathan Rockway wrote:

> * On Wed, Mar 19 2008, Sean Allen wrote:
>> Thanks for the help. It got me a long way towards realizing that a
>> with our templates, we just arent going to make it all the way.
>> hmmm.. basic to square one on figuring out a way to mass clean them  
>> up.
>
> When I'm in this sort of situation, I usually write a program that I  
> can
> run inside my text editor.  Heuristics do most of the work, but it's
> easy for me to manually edit something when an odd case arises.
>
> In one case, I needed to convert a $LARGE_COMPANY's website from a  
> bunch
> of static pages to a site that was CMS-based.  Basically I had to open
> every file, move the content into a correctly-named CMS file, then  
> add a
> an include statement to include the CMS engine in each of those files.
> Since there were thousands of pages, I knew I was never going to  
> finish
> it manually and so I automated it :)
>
> Basically, I wrote an emacs program that made a list of all the files
> that needed to be modified, then opened them one at a time, applied a
> minor mode that guessed the content (and applied a text property to
> change the color, centered the content in my window, and added a  
> keymap
> to let me select the start and end of the content), and then did the
> necessary editing and file creation when I said I was ready to commit.
> It worked great, and I finished the conversion in a few hours (after
> spending a week learning emacs lisp).
>
> I think I still have the code around somewhere... if anyone wants it I
> can give it to you.  But it comes with no warranty because it's  
> junk :)
>

I found a bundle ( aka mode ) for Textmate that got me 90% of the way  
there...
a few regex got me the first 10% ( and some automations )

So basically, something rather similar.

Which I had found it before I spent 6 hours today fighting with tidy  
before
giving up.