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Web page greeking tool - has anyone done this?

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From: Mark
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 00:00
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I need to greek (replace real text with nonsense words) a few of my Web
sites, so I can display examples of my work without releasing clients'
proprietary information.

I was thinking of using perl, since it does wonderfully with find/replace. 
However, I am a complete perl beginner, and thus would love to get input
from some experienced folks before I re-invent the wheel or write something
absolutely stupid.

I need the tool to execute two major actions, I think - one for
machine-coded HTML (ie docs translated from MSWord, etc) and one for
hand-coded HTML (the assumption being that the formatting apporach won't
alway sbe standard.

For the machine-translated HTML where formtting should be standard, I need
the tool to find "<p>" and "</p>" marks and change every word there to some
random word from a Latin text, skipping HTML tags (anything between "<" and
">" as well as JavaScript (anything between "<script" and "</script>", the
line-break sequence "<p>&nbsp;</p>" and (unfortunately...) anything between
Cold Fusion Tags (a whole library of <CFIF></CFIF>,<CFQuery></CFQuery> and
so on).


For hand-coded HTML where code might use the old "<br>" instead of the
"<p></p>", I'd need the tool to simple change everything to random Latin
words that wasn't HTML, JavaScript, "<p>&nbsp;</p>", or between Cold Fusion
tags.

It seems like such  script must be relatively easy to write, if you truly
know what you are doing (which, clearly I don't) - and perhaps, considering
all the Web designers out there, it's already been done.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
			

	Mark
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From: Junge@supernews.com (Mark)
Subject: Web page greeking tool - has anyone done this?
Date: 1997/10/19
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