I'm involved in repurposing print matter for the web and also a slow conversion of table based pages to CSS.
I find myself a little perplexed with regard to section mark up of web pages. I see two styles in use:
Old:
1) comments are used with "start" or "end" appended or pre-pended to either a single word string or sometimes multi-word string
<!-- header_nav start -->
<img src="../../books/images/book_nav_bar.jpg" width="580" height="38" border="0" alt="Navigation Bar" usemap="#book_nav_bar_map" />
<!-- header_nav end -->
or
<!-- start header navigation -->
<img src="../../books/images/book_nav_bar.jpg" width="580" height="38" border="0" alt="Navigation Bar" usemap="#book_nav_bar_map" />
<!-- end header navigation -->
this strategy has been around for years....
2) more recently, viewing something generated by inDesign's new "Package for GoLive"
[Horrifically inefficient work flow and code bloat... I can't even visualize where any one would actually use this in real life though I suppose if they invested so much in the creation of that work flow it must work somewhere, for someone... perhaps in a daily news site with dynamically generated pages requiring frequent updates, it could help...but for repurposing print matter to an already defined template... forget it.]
but it introduces the interesting use of proprietary xml mark up like:
<csobj csref="../web-data/InDesignPackages/SMNewsletterPackage/story_178.incd" h="454" occur="88" t="Component" w="392" g="incopy_default" s="">
<p class="Newslettertext">This month many etc etc.</p>
</csobj>
Now I am wondering if the use of comments to mark up web pages blocks that might be parsed, replaced dynamicaly later
(= use of offset functions in Revolution)
is now better replaced with custom XML mark up
(=use Revolution's xml library to parse and manipulate web page content on the fly or for global changes)
e.g. <hap-topNav> <div class="sitewideNav"> block of buttons here.. </div> </hap-topNav>
of course, where classes are unique ID's one could parse the xhtml, css mark up itself, but this is often not the case, and one i want to delimit entire sections that are not <div>'s as such.
In insights from actual experience appreciated.
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