TDB2Web - How to..

Prepare a pattern file

TDB2Web expects an HTML-based pattern file for its work. If no other pattern file is specified the program will use its own called Pattern.htm.

If you create your own pattern file, it may contain your particular header, footer, links, applets, images or whatever you want. It even may contain tables. As long as they are valid HTML-tables (i.e., they must contain at least one row, marked with a <TR> tag), they will be skipped.

Please consider the subsequent conventions when creating a pattern file:

A minimum pattern file should look like this:

  <HTML><BODY>
  <TABLE></TABLE>
  </BODY></HTML>

Access the table from an HTML-document

In general a text element in an HTML-document is accessed by a link which points to a corresponding target. To access the table from the pattern file (or from an external file) there are two steps to follow: