I just realised I'd like to be able to put HTML tables in a field. Also
exporting them. Has anyone got a script that will take a HTML table and
format a field so it looks the same. Also is this likely to be supported an
any future versions of MC.

> Richard Herz a écrit :
> >
> > David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29-Jan-01
> >
> > > As it's a kind of feature request. I'm posting it here to
> gauge the lists
> > > reaction/support for this idea... it comes from some
> experiments with using
> > > the existing htmlText, and recent explorations of XML and the
> use of style
> > > sheets with database driven dynamic web sites.
> >
> > I'm experimenting with using XML and MC for a database.  See
> details below.
> >
> > My request is to have MC's htmlText follow xml/xhtml
> requirements:  all tags
> > in lowercase (xhtml), all elements have end tag (xml/xhtml).
> Might also be
> > nice to have option of including an "html:" prefix (e.g.,
> <html:p>) in tags
> > for identification of html tags and specification of their function by
> > specifying the html namespace in the xml doc.
> >
> > Rich Herz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ---
> > Details: I'm in the process of converting a 6 MB, 6000 card HyperCard
> > database to MC.  Conversion of the HC stack directly to MC
> resulted in slow
> > performance for search & display.  Strategy currently is to
> keep the entire
> > database in a text file; alternatively one could save database text in a
> > stack as a custom property to help double-click opening and password
> > protection.  Records and field data are marked up as xml
> elements.  One of
> > the main xml elements of the file is specification of the MC stack (one
> > card) in which the data is to be displayed (object name as element name,
> > object properties as element attributes, scripts, if any, as
> sub elements).
> > After the main database stack reads the database text file, it
> creates the
> > display stack and its objects, loads the main <data> element into one
> > variable, then displays selected records.  Field data is saved
> as html (MC
> > htmlText).  Searching so far is just done with offset(), and is
> as fast as
> > search & display in the original HC stack.  Changes to the
> display stack are
> > saved in the data file .  Functionality is specified by scripts
> of the one
> > main database stack, though scripts can be located in the
> display stack if
> > desired.
> > ---
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> Thank's for your post, Richard :-)
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