[CaptainHaddock]

I've been trying out iWeb and its suitability for easy weblog publishing, and I'd like to be able to easily stick a few custom lines of code in. My idea is to put a key word in the text, and then run an Automator script to do a search-and-replace right before uploading.

The only problem is, I can't figure out how to make Automator do that. I'm guessing I'll need an Applescript to do the text manipulation, but I don't know how to integrate it into a workflow. I found one Applescript that does a string replacement, but I'm not sure how to apply it to the input file in an Automator workflow. Any suggestions are appreciated.

[Brass]

Sorry, I don't know the answer, but AppleScript is absolutely hopeless at text manipulation (compared to Perl, or others). If you've found a script that already does it then you're one step ahead already.

[FireWire]

Or perhaps you could execute a terminal program instead (grep?), which would be more efficient than AppleScript. Alternatively, you could embed code in you document that would automatically insert a few lines upon rendering. Depending on the hosting service you're using, you may be able to use the <include> command.

The easiest way I can think of (albeit unorthodox) would be to call a JavaScript from within your template, which would reside in a separate file:[HTML]<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript" src="site/your_script.js" />[/HTML] The .js file would contain the custom code you'd like to add. For exemple : [HTML]document.write("<a href='http://www.macnn.com'> <img src='http://www.testing.com/image.jpg' /> </a>");
document.write("<P>Lorem ipsum yadayada</P>");[/HTML]