MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual page 351

After you parse the attribute to populate the fields in the Property inspector for the
orig
translated tag, the next step is probably to set the value of the attribute if the user changes
orig
the value in any of the fields. You might find restrictions against making changes in a locked
region. You can avoid this problem by changing the original markup and retranslating.
The Property inspector for translated server-side includes (the ssi_translated.js file in the
Configuration/Inspectors folder) demonstrates this technique in its function.
setComment()
Rather than rewriting the attribute, the Property inspector assembles a new server-side
orig
include comment. It inserts that comment into the document, replacing the old one by rewriting
the contents of the document, which generates a new attribute. The following code
orig
summarizes this technique:
// Assemble the new include comment. radioStr and URL are
// variables defined earlier in the code.
newInc = "<!--#include " + radioStr + "=" + '"' + URL + '"' ¬
+" -->";
// Get the contents of the document.
var entireDocObj = dreamweaver.getDocumentDOM();
var docSrc = entireDocObj.documentElement.outerHTML;
// Store everything up to the SSI comment and everything after
// the SSI comment in the beforeSelStr and afterSelStr variables.
var beforeSelStr = docSrc.substring(0, curSelection[0] );
var afterSelStr = docSrc.substring(curSelection[1]);
// Assemble the new contents of the document.
docSrc = beforeSelStr + newInc + afterSelStr;
// Set the outerHTML of the HTML tag (represented by
// the documentElement object) to the new contents,
// and then set the selection back to the locked region
// surrounding the SSI comment.
entireDocObj.documentElement.outerHTML = docSrc;
entireDocObj.setSelection(curSelection[0], curSelection[0]+1);
A simple block/tag translator example 351