'Re: [Quanta] HTML blocks or include files'

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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] HTML blocks or include files
From:       Andras Mantia <amantia () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-06-27 20:58:07
Message-ID: 200506272358.12840.amantia () kde ! org
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On Monday 27 June 2005 16:26, Holger Zebner wrote:
> > To my knowledge, Quanta doesn't have that feature exactly.  But as
> >  you said, it's basically just a complex search and replace.  So
> >  what's to stop you from doing it that way?
>
> If you imagine a news item or something like that which changes often
> thenit would be nice to be able to change just the file which
> contains the news and not to define the search&replace.
> Just a tool to speed things up.

The fact that Quanta doesn't do it right now (for several reasons, one 
being that SSI is better, safer), doesn't mean that you cannot extend 
Quanta to do it, if you know some scripting language. bash and some 
extra tools (sed, grep, awk) might be enough, but python, perl and so 
is also good. What you would need to do is to define your own rules 
where a template begins and ends, like you said:

BLOCKTEXT

Write a script which replaces all the text between the two  
lines with the content of myblock.inc if the date there is older than 
the timestamp of the myblock.inc. How to do it? You can query the 
document content from Quanta via DCOP methods and you can even modify 
the content of the document that's in Quanta from inside the script! 
kdcop is your friend finding out the interfaces and the methods.
 But you can do it in your own language as well, without DCOP in this 
case as you usually would like to do the replace before opening a 
document or after saving it, not while it is loaded. 
So assume you wrote your script which is doing the replace on it's own 
in a file. Now create a script action for the script, assign this 
script to some event (like "After document save") and whenever you save 
a document, the  BLOCKTEXT will be updated.

What is more interesting is to write a script that detects if the saved 
file is myblock.inc and grep through the project files and update all 
of them. The procedure is the same: write the script, create a script 
action, assign it to the save event.

Are you interested in doing it? I will help you to configure the scripts 
and to teach you how to pass the arguments to the scripts. Of course, 
first read the handbook for 3.4.0, as that has some information about 
scripts, script actions and events.

Andras

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