Thanks a lot. After looking at it all carefully, I'll go with the white spaces. It's just the easiest to see but I won't have to re- formulate more regexes to undo replacement tags i.e. divs. Now I guess I move on to text factories so I can hit several files with this approach.
On Jun 3, 10:41 am, Bruce Van Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-06-03, Nick A wrote: > > >Now I'm stuck with a search window that lists all the tags that were > >found, but I don't know how to delete them all. Intuitively I want to > >select all and delete, but it doesn't seem to work like that. Using > >the find/find all/replace dialog box doesn't seem to be able to do it > >all at once. How do I do this all at once? > > You need to study BBEdit more. There (of course) is a Replace > All command. > > BUT before you do that... > > What people have been suggesting is using the search pattern for > thetableelement markup and replacing each instance with '' -- nothing. > > Before you do that, you might consider replacingtableelement > markup with some easily identifiable character(s), allowing you > to more easily see where the formertablemarkup was, and also > use additional find/replace steps to begin putting your > non-tablemarkup/css in place. > > If I were dismantling tables with this brute force "I have to do > it fast" approach, perhaps not knowing for sure yet exactly how > the contents of the tables will be marked up in the new version, > I would at least throw in some white space. Something like > replacing <table> tags with two blank lines, <tr> tags with one > blank line, and <td> & <th> tags with a newline and a tab > (\r\t). That would at least let me see the what was left in > separate pieces. > > You could just as easily replace <table> tags with <div> tags, > <tr> tags with <p>, and <td> & <th> with <span>. Taking this > further, try: > replace <table> tags with <div class="former_table"> > replace <tr> tags with <p class="former_row"> > replace <th> tages with <span class="former_heading"> > replace <td> tags with <span class="former_cell"> > > You're not stuck forever with those classes named "former..." -- > you can always do find/replace on them once the stuff being > marked up is integrated with your new css/markup scheme. In the > meantime, though, you have every piece of the formertable's > content marked up with style-able structures. > > But this really depends on whether thetable'sorganization of > its contents maps closely to how you want to organize the > content in the new version. It probably won't map well, and > you'll have to do some hand work rearranging the content to work > with css layout. Then I think your job is simpler if you do > something like what I've suggested in above with white space. > > HTH > > - Bruce > > _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group.
