Re: Is there a tool that will format Objective-C tool in HTML?

Sherm Pendley wrote:
> "Robin  Barooah" <robin.b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > I have some objective-c source files that I'd like to post on my
> > website (http://www.sublime.org).
 I have spent some time looking for
a
> > tool to format the source in HTML/XHTML unsuccessfully.  My
> > requirements are very basic - I just want:
> >
> > 1. To escape characters that otherwise won't be taken literally in
> > html.
> > 2. To convert spaces and tabs to appropriate numbers of '&nbsp;' so
> > that the code retains its indenting.
>
> If that's all you want, just do a search & replace of "&" with "&amp;"
and
> "<" with "&lt;", then wrap the code with a <pre>...</pre> element.
>

Hmm... I've not played with AppleScript, but now that you mention this
I am thinking about trying to add a script to XCode that will do just
this.

> Did you need fancier formatting (color coding, etc.), or something auto-
> mated so you can process a few thousand code files?
>

Fancy formatting could be a bonus if it produced very clean HTML but
otherwise I'd probably prefer to do without.

I am looking for something automated so I can do this accurately and
often without having to think much about it each time.

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