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extract page structure from page source? dubing 09-19-2006
Posted by dubing on September 19, 2006, 1:46 pm
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Hi,

Given a page source, is there any tool that can make a sketch of the
page structure? Our template is DIV based. It's easy to get lost in
so many DIV's. Say, <div id="container"> can include other DIV's (e.g.
nav, content, righ-column, footer, etc.). Just by staring at the page
source, it's so hard to find the closing </div> for <div
id="container">. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Bing


Posted by Harlan Messinger on September 19, 2006, 2:24 pm
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dubing@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given a page source, is there any tool that can make a sketch of the
> page structure? Our template is DIV based. It's easy to get lost in
> so many DIV's. Say, <div id="container"> can include other DIV's (e.g.
> nav, content, righ-column, footer, etc.). Just by staring at the page
> source, it's so hard to find the closing </div> for <div
> id="container">. Any ideas?

If you don't need printing and you're concerned about the document's
structure rather than the location of tags in the source, use Firefox
and download its DOM Inspector.

Posted by Ben C on September 19, 2006, 5:54 pm
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> Hi,
>
> Given a page source, is there any tool that can make a sketch of the
> page structure? Our template is DIV based. It's easy to get lost in
> so many DIV's. Say, <div id="container"> can include other DIV's (e.g.
> nav, content, righ-column, footer, etc.). Just by staring at the page
> source, it's so hard to find the closing </div> for <div
> id="container">. Any ideas?

It's pretty easy to knock up a script to output a .dot file you can
process with graphviz, which will make a nicely laid out tree diagram.

See http://www.graphviz.org/.

Posted by jussij on October 1, 2006, 3:36 am
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dubing@gmail.com wrote:

> Given a page source, is there any tool that can make a sketch of
> the page structure? Our template is DIV based. It's easy to get
> lost in so many DIV's.

FWIW the latest version of Zeus for Windows:

http://www.zeusedit.com/html.html

will code fold HTML code on DIV and other common HTML tags.

Jussi Jumppanen
Author: Zeus for Windows
NOTE: Zeus is shareware (45 day free trial)


Posted by Nick Kew on October 1, 2006, 6:45 am
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        jussij@zeusedit.com writes:
> dubing@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Given a page source, is there any tool that can make a sketch of
>> the page structure? Our template is DIV based. It's easy to get
>> lost in so many DIV's.

Yes, many. I think someone already suggested one. Any parser that
creates a tree can do it; for example Site Valet.

> FWIW the latest version of Zeus for Windows:

What??? Do the Zeus people know you're trading on their good name?
It took me a moment to realise this has nothing to do with the Zeus
we all know, but is some shareware wannabe.

--
Nick Kew

Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book
http://www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0132409674

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