Hey Niners,
I'm working on an article database right now, and have introduced a bit of frustration into my day when I decided to offer the web-article as on-the-fly PDF's too.
The article were all stored in the database as HTML. It's ugly, trust me. So I'm deciding what I want to do with them. The HTML is all wrong also, so I do have to go through and do some clean up regardless.
But I recall being told in the past that articles should never contain ANY markup or css, but if that is the case, how would you write
238Pa without using the SUP tag?
Just curious how you guys would design an article database beyond simply making a field for the title, author and text 
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jsampsonPC
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wisemx
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How about a bit of code to strip out the markup?
Something like this:
Public Function FormatStr(ByVal MessageString As String) As String
MessageString = Replace(MessageString, Chr(13), "")
MessageString = Replace(MessageString, Chr(10) & Chr(10), "</p><p>")
MessageString = Replace(MessageString, Chr(10), "<br />")
FormatStr = MessageString
End Function
FormatStr(Container.DataItem("message")) -
W3bbo
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jsampsonPC wrote:Hey Niners,
I'm working on an article database right now, and have introduced a bit of frustration into my day when I decided to offer the web-article as on-the-fly PDF's too.
The article were all stored in the database as HTML. It's ugly, trust me. So I'm deciding what I want to do with them. The HTML is all wrong also, so I do have to go through and do some clean up regardless.
But I recall being told in the past that articles should never contain ANY markup or css, but if that is the case, how would you write 238Pa without using the SUP tag?
Just curious how you guys would design an article database beyond simply making a field for the title, author and text
Markdown.
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jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com
Strip out markup? I don't want to do that. I'm asking this: if it's wrong to have markup in your data-field, then how do you apply formatting for articles that need it.
...or maybe it's not wrong at all to do basic HTML in the data-field, such as P, STRONG, U, EM, BLOCKQUOTE, etc... any input guys? -
jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com
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jh71283
Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()
What about compressing the html that you're storing?
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ZippyV
Fired Up
jh71283 wrote: What about compressing the html that you're storing?
would that do the trick?
How would that solve his problem? -
jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com
ZippyV wrote:
jh71283 wrote:
What about compressing the html that you're storing?
would that do the trick?
How would that solve his problem?
I'm not looking for compression so much as covenience. I want to get away from mixed-data, and stick with some a bit more pleasing to the eyes and expandable.
Markdown is extremely great, and seems to solve all of my problems while keeping the text completely readable.
Markdown + Clean CSS, that is.
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jsampsonPC wrote:But I recall being told in the past that articles should never contain ANY markup or css, but if that is the case, how would you write 238Pa without using the SUP tag?
Just curious how you guys would design an article database beyond simply making a field for the title, author and text
As W3bbo said, Markdown may do the job for you. Another approach that people take is to invent their own abstract markup with XML and associate XSLTs for web view, print view, edit etc. This can get quite involved. The approach may be better if you have long term requirements with reuse and find that this approach is easier.
-Brian
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figuerres
???
jsampsonPC wrote:ZippyV wrote:
jh71283 wrote:
What about compressing the html that you're storing?
would that do the trick?
How would that solve his problem?
I'm not looking for compression so much as covenience. I want to get away from mixed-data, and stick with some a bit more pleasing to the eyes and expandable.
Markdown is extremely great, and seems to solve all of my problems while keeping the text completely readable.
Markdown + Clean CSS, that is.
just read a bit about it and it sounds GREAT!
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jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com
figuerres wrote:Just read a bit about it and it sounds GREAT!
It is, completely. I used the PHP version, and it's nothing morethan calling the Markdown($source) function. It's so easy to use too. I am actually hiring my wife (who knows next to nothing about HTML/CSS) to come in and reformat the article database for me while I continue coding.
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