Posted by wayne on 10/05/06 00:04

Arthur Rhodes wrote:
> I'm building a web store and I have to create a large number of
> product descriptions. The distributors do not provide spec sheets
> or marketing materials to me in html format. Instead, they advise
> me to simply copy the descriptions from their web sites.
>
> The problem is that the descriptions I need to copy are embedded
> in complex pages, with nested tables, etc. Simply copying the
> page source doesn't seem to be that useful. I end up having to
> cut out lots of table code, etc., and usually make mistakes that
> are time consuming to figure out and fix.
>
> The other alternative is to copy the text and then recreating the html
> formatting from scratch.
>
> Is there an easier way?
>
> Right now, I'm just writing HTML by hand in a text editor. Would
> this be any easier if I used a web editor like Dreamweaver?
>
>
Perhaps you want to use server side includes to include text files in
the proper locations?

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Wayne
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion.
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