Re[2]: [Mason] Question on Dreamweaver rendering

[Christian H. <c.h...@it...>]

Hello John, David, Mason Users


Recently I asked about how to properly display Mason code in Dreamweaver. 
There are two ways to attack the problem. 

+ John Williams wrote:
> I don't know anything about dreamweaver, but you could alter the Mason
> Lexer to make Mason look more like JSP/ASP.  I wrote some proof-of-concept
> code for this at <http://masonhq.com/user/sharkey/HTML-Mason-Lexer-MSP>.
> 
> It doesn't change the </%init> tag to </%init%>, but that would probably
> be a simple matter of overriding the match_named_block routine.

Yes you're right this would be nice, I didn't thougt of it. But I really 
hesitate to alter Mason syntax without a good reason ... 

+ David wrote:
> May have the answer to your dreamweaver problem if your using dreamweaver 4
> find the file called
> 
> C:Program FilesMacromediaDreamweaver4ConfigurationThirdPartyTagsASP.xml

Yes that's my solution, crazy I did not found it in the docs, probaly as I 
assume the Dreamweaver help sucks. But I found the manual for <tagspec> by 
searching "third party tags". So I wrote a new ASP.xml but there are 
limitations. Dreamweaver expects some normal code before the first and after 
the last <%WHATEVER> block. Normally you have some HTML so no problem, 
otherwise I placed a "% #" at the end and beginning of the textfile. I also 
could not catch % perl lines properly, so they still are displayed and only can 
be changed in the code view because of > becomes &gt; 

<tagspec tag_name="M-INIT" start_string="<%INIT>" end_string="</%INIT>"
detect_in_attribute="false" content_model="script_model" 
icon="dw_mason-init.gif" icon_width="50" icon_height="15"></tagspec>

See all <tagspec>'s in the attached file ASP.xml. Also find nice little icons 
to be displayed with the mason blocks. 

> hope it helps, sorry im not a member of this list or i would have 
> replied that way sorry to contact you directley.

Hey, David, don't sorry, you're welcome and thanks for pointing me to the 
solution. 


Thanks & Best Regards Christian