According to Antun Karlovac: > Hey Gilles > > Sorry for the huge delay, but here is an example of the code that the > noindex_start/end tags didn't work on: > > <!-- ignoreThis --><span class="IndexTable"><b><a href="someLink.php" > target="_top">Link address</a><br /> > </b></span> > <span class="IndexTable"> <a href="someLink.php" > target="_top">Link address</a><br /> > </span> > ... skip a few ... > <span class="IndexTable"> <a href="someLink.php" > target="_top">Link address</a><br /> > </span> > <span class="IndexTable"> <a href="someLink.php" > target="_top">Link address</a><br /> > </span> > <!-- /ignoreThis --> > > Sorry, but I had to strip out the names of the links (and urls) for security > reasons. The link names (descriptions) were just text. The link addresses > were one of two types (in different examples) - one was absolute from the > server root; e.g. /developers/documentation/... and the other was relative, > e.g. ../../images/... > > I initially tried using the default "<!--noindex_start-->" and > "<!--noindex_end-->", but replaced them because not having a space between > the dash and first comment character can cause problems with some older > browsers. They didn't help anyway. > > What I ended up doing was putting the comments inside the link on each line. > (Not a problem, because this is all dynamically generated). > > I'm using 3.1.6
Well, I just tried htdig 3.1.6 on an html file that included the HTML excerpt above, verbatim, with the following settings in htdig.conf: noindex_start: <!-- ignoreThis --> noindex_end: <!-- /ignoreThis --> Quite predictably, it skipped over the whole excerpt above without any difficulty at all. It's not like this feature has never been tested before, after all. The very idea of trying to reproduce an unexpected problem with a highly edited excerpt of a problem file is rather ridiculous. It's pretty much guaranteed NOT to reproduce the problem you're trying to isolate. There are just too many variables that are out of your control when you do that. The parts you skipped, both inside the excerpt and on either side, could potentially have an impact on how the parser sees the whole picture - I can't reproduce the whole picture if substantial parts are hidden from me. You also can't count on e-mail to faithfully reproduce a character for character exact duplicate of the file that's giving you problems, unless you encode it somehow to prevent the mail program from mangling space and control characters. If you're able to come up with the simplest case file that clearly demonstrates the error reproduceably on your system, and you can provide an exact copy of that file, that would be a big help. Without that, I can't imagine how I'd be able to reproduce the problem here. My guess is that more likely than not, you had a mismatch somewhere between the starting and ending delimiter strings you were using in your HTML file, and the ones you had defined in the noindex_start and noindex_end attributes in your htdig.conf file. Either that or there's some other problem preventing htdig from recognizing your attribute settings, as described in http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.31 By the way, the defaults are not "<!--noindex_start-->" and "<!--noindex_end-->", but rather "<!--htdig_noindex-->" and "<!--/htdig_noindex-->". See http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#noindex_start and http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#noindex_end -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
