Answer to "Alan Beattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - message date: 20/10/99 18:21
>> I have 2 questions:
>>
>> 1) What would be the easiest way in MetaCard to retreive the list of
>> folders and files in a specific folder?
>
>Use the files and the directories functions.
>
>answer folder "Select a folder:"
>set the directory to it
>put "Files:" & cr & the files & cr into tFilesAndFolders
>put "Folders:" & cr & the directories after tFilesAndFolders
>put tFilesAndFolders
>
>You will see two periods (..) in the list of folders. This stands for the
>directory above the current directory. FYI, you may set the directory to
>".." to go up a directory from the current directory. Anyone familiar with
>the Unix or DOS command line will have seen this before.
Thanks all for your answers. I saw these commands, but could not figure
out the directory working: too much time working on Mac! No it comes back
to my memory... !-)
>
>> 2) Does anybody know of an "html parser" usable in MetaCard (xcmd?),
>> where you input an html page, and you output a structured description of
>> the page?
>
>If you mean to output a formatted page from html tags, then the very limited
>(compared to the current version of html) htmlText property might be
>sufficient for your needs:
>
>set the htmlText of fld 1 to <container with html page>
>
My need would be to analyse an html page: the output would be a
structured description of the page, like: page = head & body, head = meta
& title, title = "xxx", body = P1 & P2; P1 = table..... So then I can
work on the logical structure of the html page...
Dominique Busso
OpenMind International
http://www.openmind.fr
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