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                     Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:14:59 -0400
                     From: Eric Durant <eadurant@concentric.net>
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                       To: "Mark Fitzpatrick (MSMVP)" <marcusf@ionet.net>
                  Subject: Re: Substitution Component as HREF Value?
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Thanks for the advice; this sounds like a clean way to achieve what I
want to do, but I'm running into problems with the Include bot.

Using FP98, I have created a folder on the IIS w/ FPSE server at the
root level of the Web called "include".  Within this, I've placed a file
called "webmaster.html" with just the <A> tag for an e-mail link.  I can
go directly to this file in a browser and it displays correctly (of
course, there are no HTML/BODY/etc. tags, but the browser handles the
raw <A>).

In the FP98 Editor, I select "Insert | FrontPage Component | Include
Page".  (Of course, I'm not including a page, but an HTML snippet -
perhaps I'm using the wrong bot?  Am I right to assume this is analogous
to the NCSA-style #include directive?)  Then, in the Editor's Normal and
Preview panes, the linked address appears, but FrontPage has moved down
to a new line (I want it in-line with the surrounding paragraph.).  This
"virtual newline" cannot be removed with the backspace key.

Worse yet, when I view the page from the remote server using a browser,
The substitution text does not show at all.  The generated HTML code is:

[text leading up to bot]
<!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="include/webmaster.html" TAG="BODY"
startspan --><!--webbot bot="Include" endspan i-checksum="0" -->
[text following bot]

(I have used "Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks", but it does not affect
the results.)

So, it appears that this might be a problem with either the server
extensions or the mapping of the path "include/" on the remote server?

Also, I searched the FrontPage manual, the FrontPage help file,
Microsoft's support site, and the Web overall, and I could not find
detailed documentation on the Include bot.  Specifically, I'm wondering
what the formal definitions of the "U-Include" and "TAG" bot attributes
are.

Any help on this, including pointers in the right direction, would be
greatly appreciated.

"Mark Fitzpatrick (MSMVP)" wrote:
>You can create an empty page with the anchor text the way you want
>it then use the FP Include bot to insert it wherever you want to.
>Any time you edit the included page you can then do a Tools |
>Recalculate Hyperlinks in FP Explorer to make sure that everything
>is updated.
> 
>         Hope this helps,
>         Mark Fitzpatrick
>         Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

>Eric Durant wrote in message <361BCA99.B882E402@concentric.net>...
>>In the FrontPage '98 Editor, is it possible to use Insert | FrontPage
>>Component | Substitution for both a portion of the HREF attribute and
>>the text of an anchor?  For example, I want to have a parameter
>>called WebmasterEmail set to "user@domain.com" and have FPSE render:
>>
>><A HREF="mailto:user@domain.com">user@domain.com</A>
>>
>>I have found no way to do this with the graphical editor and when I
>>try the obvious replication of the FPSE comment inside the HREF
>>attribute using the "HTML" view of the page, it is parsed differently
>>than I intend, yielding gibberish.

Eric Durant
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