These are tricks you can do with Dreamweaver or your programmer's editor or possibly with an editor that supports Regular Expressions (regex). basically, it's some search-and-replace things you can do to save time with your html editing. your editor may require that the < and > be escaped with a \ character in front — check your manual. the TSE editor uses {} instead of (). Dreamweaver requires fixing before you can do anything with ^, $, or (), so if you want it fixed, submit a bug report. as a workaround you can replace using "specific tag" for many of these. Anyone got a good xhtml-->html or html-->xhtml converter?

URL to this document

<div>\s*<br>\s*<br>\s*<br>\s*<a\s+href="(.*)">(.*)</a>\s*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;———>URL to this document</div> replace with <div><br /><br /><br /><a href="$1" target="_blank" class="userext">$2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;———>URL to this document</div>

convert most of xhtml to html

<(.*)/\s*> replace with <$1>

convert html to xhtml (partially), 11 replaces

<[Mm][Ee][Tt][Aa]\s*(.*)> to <meta $1 />
<[Ii][Nn][Pp][Uu][Tt]\s*(.*)> to <meta $1 />
<[Ii][Mm][Gg]\s*(.*)> to <img $1 />
<[Pp][Aa][Rr][Aa][Mm]\s*(.*)> to <param $1 />
<[Ff][Ii][Ee][Ll][Dd][Ss][Ee][Tt]\s*(.*)> to <fieldset $1 />
<[Hh][Rr]\s*(.*)> to <hr $1 />
<[Ff][Rr][Aa][Mm][Ee]\s*(.*)> to <frame $1 />
<[Cc][Oo][Ll]\s*(.*)> to <col $1 />
<[Cc][Oo][Ll][Gg][Rr][Oo][Uu][Pp]\s*(.*)> to <colgroup $1 />
<[Pp](\s*)(.*)> to <p$1$2>
</P> to </p>
<[Dd][Ii][Vv]\s*(.*)> to <div$1>
</[Dd][Ii][Vv]> to </div>
(\s)[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]=(['"]?)(\S*)(['"]?) replace with $1href="\3"
(\s)[Ss][Rr][Cc]=(['"]?)(\S*)(['"]?) replace with $1src="\3"

dl,dt,dd

replace </?dl> with nothing
replace <dt class="heading">(.*)</dt> with <div class="dtheading">$1</div>
replace <d([dt])>(.*)</d[td]> with <div class="d\1">$2</div>

dreameaver regex search for old singleton tags

Search for <input((?:\s+(?:[a-zA-Z]+="[^"]*?"|[a-zA-Z]+='[^']*?'|[a-zA-Z]+=[^'"][^>\s]*|[a-zA-Z]+))*\s*)> and replace with <input$1 /> but before making it global, make sure you do a find all and check on any questionable results or results where you can't see the whole answer in the results pane.

dreameaver regex search for open/close tags

Search for <a((?:\s+(?:[a-zA-Z]+="[^"]*?"|[a-zA-Z]+='[^']*?'|[a-zA-Z]+=[^'"][^>\s]*|[a-zA-Z]+))*\s*)>([^<]*?)</a> and replace with <a$1 class="userext" target="_blank">$2</a> or whatever you like, but before making it global, make sure you do a find all and check on any questionable results or results where you can't see the whole answer in the results pane. this is tricky. because of the total greediness of * and the total laziness of *?, having tags (such as an img) between an anchor tag can present a problem. it may match more than its share or it may not match at all. check your search results first.

summary

you may need to edit these. this is a basic framework idea from which to start.