OT - what is this? "<st1:City>"

Didn't know where else to ask - and I'll probably get blasted for not knowing.... I just inherited a site with stuff like: <st1:City>     <st1:place>        St. Paul     </st1:place> </st1:City> Some sort of accessibility code I've not seen before, right? Anybody got a link to an article? TIA ...

Google "<st1:City>" Looks like a kind of Blogger code. www.blogger.com can probably help ya. On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Les Mizzell <lesmizz@bellsouth.net> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

These are actually Microsoft Smart Tags for use in Sharepoint Web Parts: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa188446(office.10).aspx On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Les Mizzell <lesmizz@bellsouth.net> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

All very weird. These are scattered through text here and there and seem almost pointless. My example below, for example - in the sentence it's St. Paul's church - not St. Paul the city. This site started as a simple Coldfusion site done by myself. At some point, somebody else took it over and converted it to Ruby on Rails, though I don't know why as it was a fairly simple site with no database. I think maybe just to see if they could do it. It went from a fairly simple structure to a confusing mish mash of code that took me forever to figure out (with *no* visable changes on the site itself) - and there's just weird "stuff" like the below here and there that I'm cleaning up now... ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

| All very weird. These are scattered through text here and | there and seem | almost pointless. My example below, for example - in the | sentence it's | St. Paul's church - not St. Paul the city. It is not that you see some left over of this "Smart Tags" that Microsoft introduced in Office a couple of years ago. I have it turned off on my computers, so I don't know how it works... With those e.g. word tries to locate place names and people in the text and give them some special hyperlink. <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=latin1&safe=off&q=%22smart+tags%2 2+st1> /Hugo

Yes, it's just Xml, as you know, that won't be displayed by a browser but can be translated into meaning by another client - in this case Microsoft Office. Try copying and pasting a chunk of text with those tags into MS Word and see what happens (select 'Keep source formatting' when pasting into word). Hopefully that will reveal something useful! HTH Dominic -- Blog it up: http://fusion.dominicwatson.co.uk

This is making use of a namespace.  It's used in XML and MXML quite a bit.  I see it less often in CF but here's what you have... Somewhere you're gonna have a cfimport tag that looks like this: <cfimport taglib="some_path_to_a_directory" prefix="st1"> That enables you to call any file in the directory specified in the taglib="" as a module like this: <st1:place attribute="" attribute2=""> </st1:place> So, in the directory specified in the taglib there is going to probably be a cfm file called place.cfm which does the work.   ---------- Jake Churchill Team Leader 11204 Davenport, Ste. 100 Omaha, NE  68154 http://www.cfwebtools.com   402-408-3733 x103 Didn't know where else to ask - and I'll probably get blasted for not knowing.... I just inherited a site with stuff like: St. Paul Some sort of accessibility code I've not seen before, right? Anybody got a link to an article? TIA ...