HTML Grinder provides you with a set of tools to use against you existing HTML documents. These tools presently include: find and replace, glossary, index builder, replace tagged text, sequential linker, stretch list.
HTML Grinder provides you with a set of tools to use against you existing HTML documents. These tools presently include: find and replace, glossary, index builder, replace tagged text, sequential linker, stretch list.
By dragging and dropping a set of HTML documents on to an AppleScript droplet, HTML Grinder first creates a list of files to modify. You then select a tool to use from the menu. HTML Grinder comes a basic very handy tool called Find and Replace. This tool is free, all the others cost $15 each. To use any of the tools you first select them form the menu and complete the simple dialog box. For example, the Find and Replace tool ask you for the text you want to locate and the text you want to use instead. It works very well.
The other tools work in a similar manner. The Glossary tool is an enhanced find and replace utility allowing you to find and replace multiple words or phrase. Replace Tagged Text is yet another variation of Find and Replace allowing you to enter two HTML tags and replace the text between those tags with other text. Index Builder creates a table of contents. Sequential Linker inserts HREFs in your documents linking them to the a table of contents, next, and previous pages. Stretch List modifies you existing HTML so every thing is looks like BLOCKQUOTES and creates new HTML files containing links to the edited version. The net (all puns intended) result are HTML files resembling the Macintosh Finder while viewing windows by name or size.
HTML Grinder works very well at the things it was designed to do, but be forewarned! HTML Grinder makes extensive modifications to your existing documents. If you don't like what it did, then the best recourse is to defer to back up copies of your data. Once HTML Grinder gets a hold of your documents, it may be very difficult to go back.
Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.