Cs3 invalid attribute bug

Question

I am a php/smarty developer, so in my templates these
statements are common:
<p{if $foo} class="bar"{/if}>some text</p>
While dreamweaber 8 tolerates this, CS3 jist deletes the
entire <p> tag.
Test case:
Paste the above in a new html document, then click Commands
-> Apply source formating.
Any suggestions how to prevent such behaviour ?

Answer 1

Dolorian wrote:
> Actually it removes it when you select a portion of the
code (with the smarty
> tags) then left click -> selection -> convert tabs
to spaces. I think this is
> either bug, or missing feature.
It's not a bug because Dreamweaver isn't a Smarty editor.
It's removing
what it regards as invalid code, so it's actually working as
designed.
I've done some further experimentation, and discovered that
Dreamweaver
CS3 tolerates the presence of Smarty tags if there is a PHP
code block
within the page.
> I don't think that request for recognizing of
> smarty tags from adobe support will meet any atention.
It would be better if we
> have (have we ?) a feature like "do not remove invalid
tags" or something.
The default setting for Dreamweaver is to never rewrite code
in pages
with certain filename extensions. (You can alter the settings
yourself
in Edit > Preferences > Code Rewriting.) Since .php is
among the default
list of files that should never be rewritten, there's a
reasonable case
to convince the Adobe team that Dreamweaver is failing to
respect this
setting in CS3.
> I am
> not very into deep features of dreamweaver, but can't we
define these tags in
> the xml schema options (or whatever it's called) ?
You can define your own tag libraries in Dreamweaver, but the
Tag
Library Editor seems to insist that all tags must be
surrounded by angle
brackets.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/