Markup maker – XHTML templates at the touch of a button
A small techie announcement: I built a tool that lets you type in a whole bunch of sections that you’d have on a page (that would relate directly to ids on the page) including the nesting of each ection and quickly create an XHTML template from it. Head on over to Accessify and see what you think (please add any comments here)
Enjoy!
Posted: September 29th, 2006 under Tech.
Comments
Comment from Adam K
Time October 2, 2006 at 1:22 pm
brilliant!! super great tool! I will for sure be using this aswell
Comment from Ryan
Time October 3, 2006 at 8:57 am
I really like the tool, awesome work.
I was wondering if you could add closing comments to the end of the div’s in the template?
I.E.
Thanks again!
Comment from Chris D
Time October 3, 2006 at 10:21 am
Fun little tool! Any chance the code is available to learn, to use, to expand?
Comment from ben
Time October 3, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Hot.
Would be nice to be able to choose the doctype as well, though I realize that would take some time.
Comment from Mihael
Time October 4, 2006 at 4:22 am
Hy!
Great tool, realy! :)
It would also be great if the “tab” would be used for separating div blocks…
realy usefull. Good job soldier! :)
Comment from Lloydi
Time October 4, 2006 at 6:11 am
@Ryan. Believe me, I tried to make it do this but couldn’t quite tallie things up properly!
@@Chris D – If I did that, you’d laugh at my woefully shabby PHP :-) Maybe one day, but for now the nasty code is hidden. If I can tidy it up somewhat I might make it available.
@Ben and @Mihael (Michael?) – Good ideas. I was resisting putting too many options in, but these are sensible ones. Will add this in soon.
Comment from Mike Cherim
Time October 4, 2006 at 6:08 pm
That looks like a clever and useful tool. Nice job Ian. Thanks for sharing.
Comment from Steve Glover
Time October 6, 2006 at 8:35 am
Neat! Just one thing, though: if you have a div containing multiple instances of the same three divs (call them bloghead, blogstory and blogbyline, say) shouldn’t they come through as classes rather than ids? But that’s a very minor nitpick indeed.
Comment from Rodrigo
Time October 7, 2006 at 2:42 am
Great, great, great job.
Someday I will just think in the site structure and let your tool build it for me.
Thanks for sharing, really :)
Comment from tava
Time October 8, 2006 at 9:26 am
Bless you, my son. You have done a wonderful thing.
Comment from Lloydi
Time October 10, 2006 at 2:40 am
@Steve Glover – I see your point but I don’t think it’s a hard-and-fast rule. I guess it would be possible to introduce some kind of flag that you can apply that would set output to class rather than id in specific places but I’d rather keep things simplewith the tool, to be honest. :-)
Comment from Jennie
Time October 10, 2006 at 1:25 pm
This would make a handy little Textmate bundle!
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Comment from Manda
Time October 13, 2006 at 8:56 am
This tool does the job!
Keep up the good work..
;)
Comment from James
Time October 16, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Very nice tool. I’d kind of like to see if create straight XML as well.
Comment from Nick
Time October 1, 2006 at 7:53 am
Pure genius! I’ll be using this. Cheers.