Re: How to get Balance Tags to include the tags
OK, with help from Roland Küffner and Christopher Stone, I've been able to
create the script I need. More on that in a bit.
There have been a number of suggestions that using find/replace with grep
should work. That only works well if there are no nested spans (with inner
spans that I want to keep ... i.e. spans with class attributes as opposed to
span elements with no attributes). And matching beginning and closing tags is
difficult in a nested element scenario. So, a script seems like the safest
approach.
So here is what I did. First, I started with the script from Roland that
selected the outer tags of a balanced tag selection. I'll repeat that original
script here:
tell application BBEdit
if (balance tags) then
set x to characterOffset of selection
set y to x + (length of selection)
inside tag start range (x - 2) end range (x - 2)
set tagLength to (end_offset of tag of result) - (start_offset
of tag of result)
set x to x - tagLength - 1
inside tag start range (y + 1) end range (y + 1)
set tagLength to (end_offset of tag of result) - (start_offset
of tag of result)
set y to y + tagLength
select characters x thru y of window 1
else
beep -- script beeps if it could not create an initial balance
end if
end tell
Then I modified it to remove the outer tags:
tell application BBEdit
if (balance tags) then
set x to characterOffset of selection
set y to x + (length of selection)
inside tag start range (x - 2) end range (x - 2)
set tagLength to (end_offset of tag of result) - (start_offset
of tag of result)
set xOpen to x - tagLength - 1
set lenOpen to tagLength
set yOpen to xOpen + lenOpen
inside tag start range (y + 1) end range (y + 1)
set tagLength to (end_offset of tag of result) - (start_offset
of tag of result)
set xClose to y
set lenClose to tagLength
set yClose to xClose + lenClose
-- set insertion point before character xClose
tell window 1 to select (characters xClose thru yClose)
tell window 1 to delete selection
tell window 1 to select (characters xOpen thru yOpen)
tell window 1 to delete selection
else
beep -- script beeps if it could not create an initial balance
end if
end tell
Then I made it specific to a span element:
tell application BBEdit
set origInsPt to characterOffset of selection
if (balance tags) then
set x to characterOffset of selection
set y to x + (length of selection)
inside tag start range (x - 2) end range (x - 2)
set t to tag of result
if (span is equal to name of t) then
set tagLength to (end_offset of t) - (start_offset of t)
set xOpen to x - tagLength - 1
set lenOpen to tagLength
set yOpen to xOpen + lenOpen
inside tag start range (y + 1) end range (y + 1)
set tagLength to (end_offset of tag of result) -
(start_offset of tag of result)
set xClose to y
set lenClose to tagLength
set yClose to xClose + lenClose
-- set insertion point before character xClose
tell window 1 to select (characters xClose thru yClose)
tell window 1 to delete selection
tell window 1 to select (characters xOpen thru yOpen)
tell window 1 to delete selection
else
tell window 1 to select (insertion point before
character origInsPt)
beep -- script beeps if it outer element is not span/
end if
else
beep -- script beeps if it could not create an initial balance
end if
end tell
Then I used a script from Chris to create the wrapper code to find an empty
span element and do some processing with it; I added a loop that repeated until
there were no more empty span elements remaining:
tell application BBEdit
set keepGoing to true
repeat while keepGoing = true
tell text of window 1
set fndRsltStart to find span options ¬
{search mode:grep, case sensitive:false,
starting at top:true} with selecting match
end tell
set keepGoing to found of fndRsltStart
if keepGoing = true then
set z to characterOffset of selection
Re: How to get Balance Tags to include the tags
Hi, Am 24.08.2011 um 24, 01:25 schrieb DaveHein: The problem I'm running into is that Balance Tags will select the innner HTML but not the span tags themselves. So if I put the cursor somewhere on or in spansome normal text here/span and did a Cmd- B, the some normal text here would be selected, but the opening span and closing /span would not be selected. I cannot see any way to get the tags that delimit the selected text to be selected as well. The following script does exactly what you want. I think this script was a result of a similar discussion on this list years ago. I didn't write it myself but unfortunately I do not know who's to be credited for it: tell application BBEdit if (balance tags) then set x to characterOffset of selection set y to x + (length of selection) inside tag start range (x - 2) end range (x - 2) set tagLength to (end_offset of tag of result) - (start_offset of tag of result) set x to x - tagLength - 1 inside tag start range (y + 1) end range (y + 1) set tagLength to (end_offset of tag of result) - (start_offset of tag of result) set y to y + tagLength select characters x thru y of window 1 else beep -- script beeps if it could not create an initial balance end if end tell happy balancing, Roland -- 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 bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: How to get Balance Tags to include the tags
Whoops: bit of a bug in that last one. If you weren't in a tag, or weren't in a span tag, it moves the insertion point. Also note that it will not re-select text if you had a selection. This one fixes the first bug, but not the second. *tell* *application* BBEdit *tell* *front* *window* *set* cursorPos *to* characterOffset *of* selection *balance tags* *set* startPos *to* characterOffset *of* selection *set* endPos *to* startPos + (length *of* selection) *select* (*characters* (startPos - 6) *thru* (endPos + 6)) *set* selectedText *to* selection *as* *text* *if* *characters* 1 *thru* 6 *of* selectedText *as* *text* *is* *equal to*span *then* *set* replaceText *to* *characters* startPos *thru* (endPos - 1) *as* *text* *set* selection *to* replaceText *select* *insertion point* *before* *character* (cursorPos - 6) *else* *select* *insertion point* *before* *character* (cursorPos) *end* *if* *end* *tell* *end* *tell* -- 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 bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: How to get Balance Tags to include the tags
On Aug 23, 7:25 pm, DaveHein dhein.li...@freshthought.com wrote: I have a lot of HTML files that have do-nothing span blocks in them. I'd like to select all the text -- including the opening and closing tags -- and then strip HTML. Actually I'd like to just strip the opening and closing span tags, and leave what's inside them alone. Why not do a Grep search/replace? Search: span.*?(.*?)/span Replace: \1 -Prachi -- 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 bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
