Taming PHP-Markdown in DWMX

[Gee]

A tip for the small subset of users who are playing with PHP-Markdown in
Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Windows:

If you are getting some unexpected behavior w/r/t tag highlighting when
working with the PHP-Markdown code -- and/or even more bizarre behavior in
the design view of a page including said code -- I believe it is because
DWMX04 is interpreting a few '?>' combinations scattered in the code as
actual processing block close tags instead characters that are part of
regex search strings.

A quick fix is to use the <script language="php>...</script> tag instead
of <?php...?> to contain the processing block in the include file. E.g.:

    <script language="php">
    //<![CDATA[
    ... PHP-Markdown code ...
    //]]>
    </script>

The CDATA tag is in there because, if I understand correct, script data is
PCDATA in XHTML, and you don't want to avoid converting the angle brackets
to &lt; etc.

Working so far for me. YMMV. Those not belonging to this narrow sub-group
are free to chuckle politely.


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