Library item inserts erroneous body tags?!

When inserting a library item that contains xsl: tags, it
adds body tags that aren't in the original library item.
For instance, here's a sample of library item text that
contains xsl: markup:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<xsl:if test="$language='en'">
<xsl:text> | </xsl:text>
<xsl:element name="a">
<xsl:attribute
name="href">SomeFile.html</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:call-template name="getLocaleString">
<xsl:with-param name="key" select="'key'"/>
<xsl:with-param name="lang" select="$locale"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
And here is the result of applying it to an html file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>

<body ><body ><xsl:if
test="$language='en'">
<xsl:text> | </xsl:text>
<xsl:element name="a">
<xsl:attribute
name="href">SomeFile.html</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:call-template name="getLocaleString">
<xsl:with-param name="key" select="'key'"/>
<xsl:with-param name="lang" select="$locale"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</body>
</html>
Anybody have a clue on what is going on here and how to stop
it?
Nathan

I assume you are using DWCS3? Post the steps to reproduce
this and let's
see what happens....
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"Nathan Whelchel" <[email protected]> wrote
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> When inserting a library item that contains xsl: tags,
it adds body tags
> that
> aren't in the original library item.
>
> For instance, here's a sample of library item text that
contains xsl:
> markup:
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
> <xsl:if test="$language='en'">
>
<xsl:text> | </xsl:text>
> <xsl:element name="a">
> <xsl:attribute
name="href">SomeFile.html</xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:call-template name="getLocaleString">
> <xsl:with-param name="key" select="'key'"/>
> <xsl:with-param name="lang" select="$locale"/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:element>
> </xsl:if>
>
> And here is the result of applying it to an html file:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> 
> <body ><body ><xsl:if
test="$language='en'">
>
<xsl:text> | </xsl:text>
> <xsl:element name="a">
> <xsl:attribute
name="href">SomeFile.html</xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:call-template name="getLocaleString">
> <xsl:with-param name="key" select="'key'"/>
> <xsl:with-param name="lang" select="$locale"/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:element>
> </xsl:if>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Anybody have a clue on what is going on here and how to
stop it?
>
> Nathan
>

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Dear Dreamweaver people,
i am busy inserting a library item (some html that creates a
form) in about 400 pages. Automating this task is probably to
complicated for me, but, hitting this insert button is tyresome as
well. Is there any shortcut possible for this button? I cannot find
a possibility in the editing shortcuts panel.
I am using dreamweaver CS2
Thanks for any help

I wouldn't recommend this. You would be MUCH better off using
server-side
includes instead of a Library item (I can't find a compelling
reason to ever
use Library items, honestly).
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> Dear Dreamweaver people,
> i am busy inserting a library item (some html that
creates a form) in
> about
> 400 pages. Automating this task is probably to
complicated for me, but,
> hitting
> this insert button is tyresome as well. Is there any
shortcut possible for
> this
> button? I cannot find a possibility in the editing
shortcuts panel.
> I am using dreamweaver CS2
>
> Thanks for any help
>

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I need help with these two things:
1) obtain an array or list of all the items in a particular Library, which is already open.
2) Once I have the list of library items I need to be able to place one or multiple on the page keeping track them so I can place images and text in the appropriate boxes.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Indesign CS3 and my external app is coded in Objective-C on a Mac. I prefer Javascript as I'm very familiar with it as opposed to Applescript.
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Assuming you have access to the equivalent of doScript, when that is used to run a JavaScript, the final value of the script is returned (coerced to a string? I'm not sure).
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Hello,
I have some library items that are table rows. When I insert
the library item into my page, it actually rearranges the code on
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can't make just a row a Library item- it has to have
<table> and </table>
rethink this, or go with SSI or something?
> I have some library items that are table rows. When I
insert the library item
> into my page, it actually rearranges the code on the
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> way to have DW stop doing this?

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I made a Spry menu for my Home Page. I saved it and a logo
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is on the home page; still no luck.
I tried the same with a test file, which I have since
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Here are the two pages I am referring to:
Good Page:
http://iculver.com/
Bad Page:
http://iculver.com/pages/AboutUs/Personal_info.html

Apologies - my mistake. You are correct, and my instructions
were
incomplete. That other bit is required too.
> Now, I thought (probably in error) that items after !--
were comments, but
> it
> seems to be required, too. I tried eliminating taht part
and the menus did
> not
> work. I need all of this last part.
The comments 'hide' the scripting from validators and older
browsers, but
it's still recognized as javascript, since the comments occur
INSIDE a
<script> tag.
> these Spry Menus in Libraries easier to use...)
It's not so hard once you get all the pieces together.
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2. Make sure that each page that is to carry this library
item has the
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in the body.
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are managed
for you.
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"JustBob" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hummm...
>
> Now, don't yell at me, okay? I'm a goLive switcher and
really a graphic
> designer, not a coder...
>
> So, It seems from the above message that I am to
establish the links to
> the
> script and the css file before inserting the library
item. But, either
> way,
> that didn;t do the trick for me. I did find a bit of
code in one of the
> pages
> that seems to be required.
>
> It seems I also need to insert this just before the
close of the body tag:
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> 
> </script>
>
> Now, I thought (probably in error) that items after !--
were comments, but
> it
> seems to be required, too. I tried eliminating taht part
and the menus did
> not
> work. I need all of this last part.
>
> I'm sorry I'm such a dope. I probably did something
funny when I was
> styling
> the menu. (I do hope Adobe can accommodate dopes lime
me, though, and make
> these Spry Menus in Libraries easier to use...)
>
> Thanks for all of your help! Really!
>

Error message with library item in template

I'm not sure if this is a PM issue or a DWCS3 issue. The only
way to find out is to ask.
I have gone through the process of creating a a library item
of a
PopMagic menu according the the video provided by P7. Works
well.
Then I added the library item to an existing DWCS3 template
and saved
it. When I attempt to create "new from template" page from
the template
menu, I get this error message
http://www.jdcdemo.com/blf/error.html
If I do the same with a template without the menu, the
error message goes away.
If I create a page with from a template where I've left an
editable
region for the menu and then insert the menu and save the
page, I also
get the error message, but the page seems to work ok.
Since I can't create a new page with the template, I opened
it and saved it as a page:
http://www.jdcdemo.com/baim/BLF8/error-message.html
What is going on here and is there a fix?
Thanks,
Joe

Look at your code. Count <body> tags. How many do you
get? Yeah - that's
wrong. You didn't follow the video....
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> I'm not sure if this is a PM issue or a DWCS3 issue. The
only way to find
> out
> is to ask.
> I have gone through the process of creating a a library
item of a
> PopMagic menu according the the video provided by P7.
Works well.
> Then I added the library item to an existing DWCS3
template and saved
> it. When I attempt to create "new from template" page
from the template
> menu, I get this error message
>
>
http://www.jdcdemo.com/blf/error.html
>
> If I do the same with a template without the menu, the
> error message goes away.
>
> If I create a page with from a template where I've left
an editable
> region for the menu and then insert the menu and save
the page, I also
> get the error message, but the page seems to work ok.
>
> Since I can't create a new page with the template, I
opened it and saved
> it as
> a page:
>
>
http://www.jdcdemo.com/baim/BLF8/error-message.html
>
> What is going on here and is there a fix?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>

Changed a Library Item and now my CSS no longer works!

I am so frustrated I am almost in tears. I created a menu in a roughly 7 page website and used DW Library menu to put it on additional pages. Everything was working fine and then I changed a path to one of my links and hit the button to update the rest of the pages and that's when it happend. My CSS was gone, no longer applying to any of my menus. I created an additional CSS sheet just to style my menu and it worked fine up until I changed a frickin link to one my menu icons. Now my CSS sheets won't apply at all. I have no idea what has happened and why me changing the path of a link would void out my styles. Has anyone else had this happen? Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I don't want to rub salt into your wounds here, but why are you using Library Items for menus? That's what DW Templates are for.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/dreamweaver_template.asp#1
Or better still, Server-Side Includes.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp
Shortcomings of Library Items: they cannot be inserted into the <head> tags of documents. Nor can they contain code that belongs in the <head> tags. Library items can only be inserted into the <body> tags.
My advice is to run your code through the online validation tools below and fix reported errors.
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
If you can't solve the problem yourself, upload page(s) and supporting files to a public web space you control and post the URL here.
Nancy O.

Spry widget menu bar as a library item - problems

I created a spry vertical menu bar and made it a library item. The original works great, however when I insert the library item into its own div tag on another page, the submenus will not pop out, either in DW or the browser view. The div tag is the correct size and I made the z index high enough. Here is the code of the page that works properly:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>DM Consulting Dry Dock Training</title>
<link href="css styles/drydock2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><img src="images/header_title_white.png" width="645" height="116" alt="header" /></div>
<div id="logo"><img src="images/drydock_logo_blktxt.png" width="154" height="119" alt="logo" /></div>
<div id="mainContent">
    <div id="content">
      <p><span class="bolder1">D</span><span class="bolder1">M Consulting </span><span class="lineheight">provides Dry Dock Training, Dry Dock Conferences,<br />
        Dry Dock Software and Dry Dock Consulting      for:</span></p>
      <ul>
        <li class="lineheight"> Dock Masters</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Docking Officers</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Dry Dock Crews</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Engineers</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Naval Architects </li>
        <li class="lineheight"> Port Engineers</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Program/Project Managers</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Marine Surveyors</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Owners' Representatives</li>
        <li class="lineheight">On-site Representatives</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Consultants</li>
        <li class="lineheight">Others Involved or Interested in
          the <br />
          Dry Docking of Ships and Vessels</li>
      </ul>
      <div id="testimonials">"The course was excellent, straight forward and comprehensive. Instruction was great, expected <br />
        "death-by-power point" but was pleasantly surprised.
        I am better acquainted w/dry dock basics after the
        course and can trust the accuracy of the training
        based on the extensive experience of the instructors. Thank you!
        Very informative, very thorough."
          - David, Australia<br />
      </div>
      <div id="movie">
        <object width="560" height="340">
          <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qLGUZEkbAwA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" />
          <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
          <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
          <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qLGUZEkbAwA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed>
        </object>
      </div>
      <div id="moreTestimonials">»»» click here for more testimonials «««</div>
      <div id="footer">© COPYRIGHT 2010 DM CONSULTING</div>
    </div>
    <div id="navbar">
      
      <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
        <li><a href="#index.html" title="DM Consulting home page">HOME</a></li>
        <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">TRAINING</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#outline.html" title="Outline of our Training Course">General Information & Outline</a></li>
            <li><a href="#train_sched.html" title="Locations & dates of our Training Courses">Training Course Schedule</a></li>
            <li><a href="#drawings.html" title="Dry dock course drawings">Course Drawings</a></li>
            <li><a href="#testimonials.html" title="Read what our clients have to say">Testimonials</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#conference.html" title="Dry Dock Conference information">CONFERENCE</a></li>
        <li><a href="#software.html" title="Shop our software">DOCKMASTER SOFTWARE</a></li>
        <li><a href="#consulting.html" title="Dry Dock Consulting">CONSULTING</a></li>
        <li><a href="#clients.html" title="List of current and past clients">CLIENTS</a></li>
        <li><a href="#about.html" title="Learn about our company">ABOUT</a></li>
        <li><a href="#contact.html" title="Contact us">CONTACT US</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
Here is the code for the page that DOESN'T work:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Training Course Schedule</title>
<link href="../css styles/drydock2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><img src="../images/header_title_white.png" width="645" height="116" alt="header" /></div>
<div id="logo"><img src="../images/drydock_logo_blktxt.png" width="154" height="119" alt="logo" /></div>
<div id="mainContent">
    <div id="content">
      <h2><span class="bolder1">Training Course Schedule</span><span class="bolder1"></span></h2>
      <p><br />
      Class sizes are limited so please register early. Early registration and payment provides the best value.<br />
<br />
      </p>
<p class="underline"><strong>4-7 October 2010 •   Honolulu, HI, USA </strong></p>
      <div id="schedulephoto"><img src="../images/conference-rm_train_s.jpg" width="250" height="123" alt="image" /></div>
      <p>The training will be held in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA. <br />
        <a href="Registration_Hawaii.html">Registration form</a><br />
        <br />
      </p>
      <p class="underline"><strong>15-18 November 2010   •   Virginia Beach VA, USA</strong></p>
      <p>The training will be held in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. <br />
        <a href="Registration_Virginia.html">Registration form</a><br />
        <br />
      </p>
      <p class="underline"><strong>11-14 May 2011 •   London, United Kingdom</strong></p>
        The training is held in conjunction with the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA). Registration and payment will be made directly to RINA. <br />
        Visit RINA's <a href="http://www.RINA.org.uk" target="_blank">website</a> and go to "Events" or call +44 (0) 20 7201 2401.<br />
<br />
      </p>
      <p><strong>Your Location</strong></p>
      <p>Training tailored to your organization's needs, including training at your facilities, <br />
        is also available.    </p>
    </div>
    <div id="nav3">
    <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
      <li><a href="#index.html" title="DM Consulting home page">HOME</a></li>
      <li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">TRAINING</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#outline.html" title="Outline of our Training Course">General Information & Outline</a></li>
          <li><a href="#train_sched.html" title="Locations & dates of our Training Courses">Training Course Schedule</a></li>
          <li><a href="#drawings.html" title="Dry dock course drawings">Course Drawings</a></li>
          <li><a href="#testimonials.html" title="Read what our clients have to say">Testimonials</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#conference.html" title="Dry Dock Conference information">CONFERENCE</a></li>
      <li><a href="#software.html" title="Shop our software">DOCKMASTER SOFTWARE</a></li>
      <li><a href="#consulting.html" title="Dry Dock Consulting">CONSULTING</a></li>
      <li><a href="#clients.html" title="List of current and past clients">CLIENTS</a></li>
      <li><a href="#about.html" title="Learn about our company">ABOUT</a></li>
      <li><a href="#contact.html" title="Contact us">CONTACT US</a></li>
    </ul>
    </div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
I understand about having the script and link element that connect my page to the dependent files in the SpryAssets folder in the header and the JavaScript function cal at the bottom on each page. I don't know what else to do - HELP!

Welcome to the Dreamweaver world!
Well, having your index.html page at the top/root level is important, as that is the default page by which people will enter your site.
Having other pages in folders is fine...I do it all the time in order to keep departments or categories of information sorted.
One characteristic of having pages in folders is that the hierarchy of files in folders (perforce) puts them at different depths in the site.
This is not inherently a bad thing! Just one to remain aware of. When you look at your site files in the Files Panel, you can see a graphical representation of those different levels.
But the nature of a library item is that it is identical in all its instances, which is what makes it useful...change it in the library, and it changes site-wide. The down-side of that identity is that when your files are at different depths in the hierarchy, their links back to, say, home (or any other same file) will change depending on the depth. You can see this if you make a link on a page, then drag the page (in the Files Panel) to a different depth...say, into a folder when it started at root level, or vice versa. Check the link, and you will see that it automatically adapted to the new path.
Library items do not do that; they do not change, so some of your links will be 'wrong' when you refer to pages that have different paths than the ones originally set up in the library item... because of the change in hierarchy.
All this is, of course, reliant on your creation of the site in the first place, as defining the root folder's location on your computer gives Dreamweaver a starting point for handling (juggling?) all the location-information for your site's files.
Beth

Changing behaviors on library items

I currently have a header as a library item. The buttons all
have pop-up menus and I am trying to edit them. I used the help
through Dreamweaver and it said to open a page that contains the
library item and detach it - make the changes then re-save the
library sections. I tried that and when I click on the "Shoe Pop-up
Menu" on the behavior tab I get the following error message:
While executing inspectBehavior in Show Pop-up Menu.htm, the
followinf JavaScript error(s) occurred:
At line 492 of file "C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver
8\Configuration\Behaviors\Actions\Show Pop-up Menu.js"; TypeError :
T.update is not a function
Can anyone help with this? What does it mean?

A well-formed library item cannot have a behavior *in* it. It
can reference
a behavior with a call to it, e.g.,
<a onClick="MM_swapImage....
but it cannot actually CONTAIN a behavior. Why? Because that
would mean
that it would have to have <html>, <head>, and
<body> tags and Library items
just cannot contain those. Why? Because since a Library item
is inserted
into another page, if it contained those tags, they would
then be duplicated
on the other page.
So - your Library item is not well formed, i.e., it's broken.
> buttons all have pop-up menus
> and I am trying to edit them.
This is the worst possible situation. You have a broken
Library item, and it
contains an even more broken menu system. Is it too late to
reconsider
here?
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"TiffanyAdTrends" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
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>I currently have a header as a library item. The buttons
all have pop-up
>menus
> and I am trying to edit them. I used the help through
Dreamweaver and it
> said
> to open a page that contains the library item and detach
it - make the
> changes
> then re-save the library sections. I tried that and when
I click on the
> "Shoe
> Pop-up Menu" on the behavior tab I get the following
error message:
>
> While executing inspectBehavior in Show Pop-up Menu.htm,
the followinf
> JavaScript error(s) occurred:
>
> At line 492 of file "C:\Program
Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver
> 8\Configuration\Behaviors\Actions\Show Pop-up Menu.js";
TypeError :
> T.update is
> not a function
>
> Can anyone help with this? What does it mean?
>

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